1. PCW-09 Vision: Information Center Approval System
Delivered by: Vanessa Samuels, Deltek
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2. Overview
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3. Overview
We will be using workflows, security, and info center designer to create an advanced info center approval system.
For example: When new vendor records are created, the workflows will put into place a process that will ensure two sets of eyes view each new record to ensure accuracy and reduce the ability to create fake vendor records, thus requiring the vendor to be approved before they can be utilized.
To achieve this, we will create a series of relatively simple workflows that will utilize user-defined fields and the info center designer.
Role security will also play a partial role in implementing this process.
The process will also audit the user information that was responsible for submitting and approving the new records.
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4. Agenda Process flow for vendor record approvals
Adding User-defined fields
Review of using Info Center Designer
Creating the workflow
Q & A
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5. Vendor Record Approvals
Process Flow for
Vendor Record Approvals
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6. Process Flow for Vendor Record Approvals
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Process Flow for Vendor Record Approvals
The Approver needs to check the “Approved” box which will automatically change the Status from Dormant to Active and will update the approved date with today.
This will also send an to the employee that submitted the vendor record to let them know the vendor is now ready for use.
Clicking New Vendor or Copy To Create A New Vendor will automatically set the status to “Dormant”.
AP User enters in Vendor Information, and checks off the “Submitted” box and selects the approver from the list of employees.
Submitted field will auto-populate with the users login information and the Submitted date will populate with today’s date.
The system will also send an to the Approver letting them know that the new vendor record needs to be approved.
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7. Getting Started: Other and Post Required Setup Maintenance
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8. Other required setup
In order for this to work properly, you need to ensure that the system is working properly and that the employee addresses are correct in the employee info center.
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9. Post Setup Maintenance
Once configured, the system will continue to run on its own. However, if you need to add or remove the Vendor Approver you will need to manually account for this.
You will need to update the workflow containing the approved by list as well as update the help info bubble with the approvers.
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10. Adding
User-Defined Fields
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11. Adding User Defined Fields
Created a new tab called “Vendor Approvals”
Add 8 user-defined fields and 1 info help bubble.
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12. Adding User Defined Fields
Add the following 8 fields for use. Feel free to use your own naming convention.
Uncheck default value checkbox fields.
In my setup I’m using 2 employee lookup fields, 2 character fields, 2 date fields, and 2 checkboxes.
Select the newly-created user - defined Tab in the tab dropdown.
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13. Adding User Defined Tabs
Go to Menu > Configuration > General > User Defined Components
Select Application ‘Vendors’ from the dropdown.
On the “Tabs” tab, select Insert to add a new custom tab.
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14. of Using Info Center Designer
Review
of Using Info Center Designer
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15. Using Info Center Designer
In the Vendor Info Center at the bottom right corner, click the building square/ruler and select “Designer” to enter the Info Center Designer
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16. Add Help Info Bubble
Click the ? Button (without the “Help” at the end) to add “New Help Text”. It will be added to the upper left hand corner by default.
Click the Help button
In the Properties pane>Help Text field, type in the List of Available Approvers.
Save your changes.
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17. Help Text Editor Use the Help Text Editor to format the text.
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18. Info Center Security Flagged Date Submitted, Submitted User login,
Date Approved,
and Approved by User Login as locked for all roles using the lookup for Locked.
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19. Info Center Security
For the Approved checkbox, I set it locked for all roles but the “Default” role.
However, it can be set as available for all roles that would have rights to Approve a Vendor Record.
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20. Info Center Security
Set the Status field on the General tab to “locked” for all roles, or if needed, allow only the default role to make an edit.
Once completed the popup will appear as follows:
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21. Demo of Workflow
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22. Creating the Workflow
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23. Examine Workflow Concepts
There are different kinds of workflows:
User initiated workflows are triggered by a specific user action. Actions include adding, changing, or deleting a record or a portion of a record.
Scheduled workflows are database queries that run at regular intervals via the process server. They are triggered when user-defined conditions are met.
Today, we’re going to discuss User Initiated Workflows.
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24. Create Vendor Info Center Approval Workflow
Navigate to Configuration > Workflow > User initiated Workflows,
and select “Vendors” for the Application.
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25. Events and Actions
An Event is when someone adds, changes, or deletes a record or a portion of a record in Vision.
For example: someone adds a new vendor in the Vendor Info Center.
When an event takes place and if it meets the conditions of a user-initiated workflow, Vision automatically performs the “actions” that are specified for it in the user-initiated workflow, such as sending an alert or changing the value of a column.
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26. Steps of Workflow
When a New Vendor Record is created, the status will automatically be changed to ‘Dormant’.
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27. When a New Vendor Record is created, and the ‘submitted’ box is selected, the following actions will occur:
After the AP user presses save, the Submitted field will auto-populate with the users login information and the Submitted date will populate with today’s date.
There is also a validate error action to prevent the user from selecting an employee who is not a listed approver
The system will also send an to the Approver letting them know that the New Vendor Record needs to be approved.
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28. The Approver will then need to check the “Approved” box which will automatically change the status from Dormant to Active and will update the approved date with today.
This will also send an to the employee that submitted the vendor record to let them know the vendor is now ready for use.
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29. Questions?
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me:
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