To view the properties of the Verify Approval Authority subprocess, select its process activity in the navigator tree, then choose Properties from the Edit menu. The Verify Approval Authority subprocess has a result type of Yes/No, indicating that when the subprocess completes, it has a result of Yes or No. This result corresponds to the lookup codes in the Yes/No lookup type, in the Standard item type.

This process activity is not runnable, indicating that it cannot be initiated as a top-level process to run, but rather can only be run when called by another higher level process as a subprocess.

The subprocess begins at node 1.

Node 2 checks the approver's approval authority limits defined in the Approval Groups and Assign Approval Groups windows. (See: Defining Approval Groups. See: Assigning Approval Groups.)

If the person has enough authority to approve the document, the function activity Is Forward-To Provided? (which is outside this subprocess, in the overall workflow) begins. If not, then the process activity Find Approver (outside this subprocess) begins.

If the Document Approval Manager fails at node 2, node 3 sends a notification of the failure to the approver. Once the Document Approval Manager is restarted successfully, the workflow continues if the approver or system administrator responds to the notification with Retry.