Set Up Approval Notifications

Approval notifications are emails sent to users with a count of outstanding (completed, but not approved) entries ready for approval.

  1. To set up approval notifications:
    1. In Traqspera, select Settings & Permissions > Notifications.
    2. Select the Timesheet Approval tab.
    3. Configure the following options in this section:
      • Day of Week Approval Email Is Sent: Determines the day of the week that the approval email is sent (this setting only works for weekly and bi-weekly emails).

      • Time Approval Email Is Sent: Determines the time of day that the email will be sent.

      • Number of Days In Past Included In Email: Determines the number of days in the past from the current date to retrieve entries.

  2. To subscribe users to approval notifications:
    1. From the Timesheet Approval tab, select the Add Subscribers button in the upper right.

      The Subscribe Users to Notifications window opens.

    2. In the Users dropdown field, select the users to subscribe to approval notifications.
    3. Under Select Subscriptions section, under Timesheet Approval, select email notification frequencies. Users can subscribe to any combination of the following:
      • Daily

      • Weekly

      • Bi-weekly

    4. Select Add.
  3. To activate sending emails, enable the applicable cron jobs as follows:
    1. Select Settings & Permissions.
    2. In the list of options on the left side of the Settings page, scroll to and select Cron Jobs.
    3. Locate or filter for each of the following cron jobs:
      • sendBiWeeklyTimesheetApprovalNotificationEmail

      • sendDailyTimesheetApprovalNotificationEmail

      • sendWeeklyTimesheetApprovalNotificationEmail

    4. In the Action column on the far right of the grid, select the Edit button for the relevant cron job.
    5. Select the Enabled checkbox for the job.
    6. Select Save.
    7. Repeat steps 3c-3f for the remaining cron jobs.