Add additional approvers to submitted document approvals

Last update: February 21, 2025

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You can add additional approvers to a document approval directly from the Home area.

Access requirements

Expand to view access requirements for the functionality in this article.

You must have the following access to perform the steps in this article:

Adobe Workfront plan*Any
Adobe Workfront license*Review or higher
Access level configurations*

View or higher access to Projects, Tasks, Issues, Templates, Portfolios, Programs, Reports, Dashboards, and Calendars, Documents

Note: If you still don't have access, ask your Workfront administrator if they set additional restrictions in your access level. For information on how a Workfront administrator can modify your access level, see Create or modify custom access levels.

Object permissions

View or higher access to the object associated with the request access or approval

For information on requesting additional access, see Request access to objects.

To find out what plan, license type, or access you have, contact your Workfront administrator.

Add additional approvers to submitted document approvals

  1. Click the Home icon Home icon in the upper-left corner of Adobe Workfront.

    NOTE
    Your Workfront administrator might make the following changes to the Home icon in your environment:
    • Replace it with an image customized to illustrate your organization. In this case, the icon will look different that shown in this article.
    • Replace the page linked to it with a different page. In this case, click the Main Menu Main Menu icon in the upper-right corner of the page, then click Home.

  2. In the Work List area, Go to the Approvals I’ve Submitted grouping.

  3. Select a Document approval.

  4. Click Manage Approvals  in the upper-right corner of the right panel.

  5. In the Have someone approve this document box, type the name of the approver.

    If your Adobe Workfront administrator has enabled the capability to collaborate with people who don’t use Workfront, as described in Configure system security preferences, you can type their email addresses to include them.

  6. Click Save.

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