Reporting on Approvals
10 min
overview some approval fields are available to add as columns to custom list reports or to group results by in segmentation or count over time reports custom reports can be configured on the plus, enterprise, and legacy plus plans foundations legacy plus plus enterprise ❌ ✅ ✅ ✅ prerequisites approval processes must be configured and used before they can be reported on for more on creating and using approval flows, check out approvals docid\ e yblrbjigpkxpxjelyjo approval fields for offers column field name description job consideration's offer's latest approval process approved at the timestamp showing the date and time the offer was approved job consideration's offer's latest approval process's created at the timestamp showing the date and time the approval request was created job consideration's offer's latest approval process's completed approver the approvers on the completed approval job consideration's offer's latest approval process's approver the approvers on the approval (including pending, cancelled, overridden, approved, and completed) job consideration's offer's latest approval process's requester the requester on the approval job consideration's offer's latest approval process's rejection note if an approval was rejected, the note included as part of the rejection job consideration's offer's latest approval process's rejected by the approver who rejected the approval job consideration's offer's latest approval process's status the status of the offer approval approval fields for openings column field name description opening's current approval process's approved at the timestamp showing the date and time the opening was approved opening's current approval process's created at the timestamp showing the date and time the approval request was created opening's current approval process's completed approver the approvers on the completed approval opening's current approval process's approver the approvers on the approval (including pending, cancelled, overridden, approved, and completed) opening's current approval process's requester the requester on the approval opening's current approval process's rejection note if an approval was rejected, the note included as part of the rejection opening's current approval process's rejected by the approver who rejected the approval opening's current approval process's status the status of the opening approval these allow you to see approvers for openings, and offers at a glance and also open up auditing opportunities reporting fields for job approvals are not currently available example reports offers pending approval the example report below provides a list of offers pending approval, including the approvers and those approvers who have completed their step of the approval process an example report showing all offers pending approval report type custom list subject offers filters job consideration's offer's latest approval process's status = pending columns job consideration's candidate job consideration's job job consideration's job's team job consideration's offer's latest approval process's completed approver job consideration's offer's latest approval process's approver approval information for an audit you may want to pull a custom list report showing offer information, including the approvers, and configure alerts docid\ fckr kkhnmjz6vuu3krvw to go to your hr team the example report setup below includes some offer details and the approval details in one table an example report for an offer approval audit report type custom list subject job considerations filters job consideration's offer's latest approval process's approved at \[set your time range here] columns job consideration's candidate job consideration's job job consideration's job's team job consideration's offer's latest version's hrbp (this is a custom field, more on configuring this below) job consideration's offer's latest approval process's completed approver job consideration's offer's latest approval process's approver job consideration's offer's latest approval process's requester job consideration's offer's latest version's salary configuring the hrbp custom field you can create an offer custom field to have the option to add an hr team member or hrbp to the offer and pull it into the report dynamically to configure this custom field navigate to admin > organization setup > custom fields click on the offer tab, then the + new button give your custom field a title, then set it to be an employee custom field now when you are creating an offer, you can set an employee who is on your hr team as the user in this field they then appear in the hrbp column of your report for more on setting up custom fields, check out custom fields docid\ qpgklrscmzgwc 7krbwds creating an alert for your audit report if you'd like to send slack and email notifications with report information to your hrbp or other users for audit, you can configure an alert once you've saved your custom list report click the alerts button, then add alert configure the alert settings when the alert should be sent (a full list periodically or new records as soon as they are added) how they should be sent (via email or slack) who they should be sent to if you have a group of specific users this report should go to, click + add user or email to add them as recipients individually if you've configured a custom hrbp field, you can set this field as a recipient field by clicking + add user role and selecting the appropriate field setting up an alert for an audit report you can read more about configuring alerts in alerts docid\ fckr kkhnmjz6vuu3krvw