Due dates for approvals

Marketing Operations determines individual due dates for approvers to complete their reviews. Due dates for approvals depend on whether the approver is required or optional and the approver's place in the sequence.

Approval due dates are determined differently for required reviewers than they are for optional reviewers.

• For optional reviewers, the due date is the date that the approval was submitted plus the duration that is specified for the reviewer. The place in the sequence does affect the due date for optional reviewers.
• Due dates for required approvers do not reserve time for optional reviewers to respond.Marketing Operations calculates due dates for required approvers as follows:

    Approval submission date 
  + sum of previous required approvers' durations 
  + duration for this required appprover
  = current approver's due date

For example:

• Three approvers are required
• Each one approves in sequence
• The duration for each approver is one day

In this case, the due date for the third approver is three days after the approval was submitted.

The durations for approvers that work in parallel (that is, they have the same sequence number in the process) is calculated as follows.

• The duration is counted one time; it is not summed.
• If the durations have different lengths, the longest duration is used.