Setting Up Timesheet Options 31 Specifying who Approves Timesheets You can choose who approves each user’s timesheet. More than one approver can be required to approve a timesheet. To specify who approves a timesheet you must: 1.    Create approver types to define who the individual approvers are. 2.    Create approval paths to define the order in which the timesheet is forwarded to the approvers. 3.    Assign an approval path to the user, as detailed in Setting User Options on page 71. If you don’t require timesheets to be approved, skip the first step. Setting Up the Approver Types Approver types identify the individuals who will be approving timesheets. Specific individuals, such as payroll or billing administrators, can approve timesheets. Alternately, you can choose relative approvers such as each user’s supervisor, or a project leader who approves timesheet data for their projects. Once approver types are created, you can use them to create approval paths for the timesheet to follow. The approver types you define will also be available to add to approval paths for time off bookings and expense sheets. Approver types are defined at: Administration > Approval Setup > Approver Types When adding or editing an approver type, you must specify: 1.    The name of the approver type, which will be used to identify the approver type when creating ap- proval paths 2.    The type of approver: • Supervisor, who approves all timesheets for users they supervise • Project Leader, who approves all time entered against their project (available in Project & Billing Edition only) • External User, who approves all time entered against projects for which they are specified as the Client/External Approver, as detailed in Allowing Clients to Access Project Infor- mation on page 82 (available in Project & Billing Edition only) • A specific user, who approves all timesheetsfor all users assigned an approval path con- taining this approver type. Only users who have been assigned approval permissions will be available for selection.    If you choose a relative approver, the system will automatically determine the appropriate person to forward the timesheet to based on the user and the contents of the timesheet. 3.    Whether to override the approver’s existing permissions, and which additional permissions to pro- vide them. See When to Override an Approver’s Permissions for more information.    If you want a specific user to be an approver and that user does not exist yet, create a place- holder approver type and then edit it once the approver has been created. To prevent delays in the approval process, the system will automatically approve timesheets if: • Items were submitted before the approver’s Start Date • The user associated with an approver type is not specified (for example, a Project Leader has not been assigned to the project) When this occurs, <System> is shown in the approval details.