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Bypass or cancel approval in the backward-compatible document library

Bypass or cancel approval in the backward-compatible document library

If you are a coordinator on a specific folder, you have the ability to end an approval process by using the Bypass Approval command or by using the Cancel Approval command. This is useful if a document is under approval and one or more of the approvers is not available to approve the document. The Bypass Approval command skips all remaining approvers and publishes the document to the portal site. The Cancel Publish command cancels the approval process and returns the document to a checked-in, unpublished state in the backward-compatible document library.

Important  If you are a coordinator for a folder and an approver in that folder, when you receive an approval request, the Approve, Bypass Approval, Reject, and Cancel Publish options are all available to you on the same menu. Ensure that you do not choose Bypass Approval or Cancel Publishing accidentally when you want to use Approve or Reject.

Bypass approval

  1. Locate one or more documents for which you want to bypass approval by using the network place for the backward-compatible document library.
  2. Select the document or documents, right-click one of them, and then click Bypass Approval.

    The approval process for this document ends, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 publishes the document on the portal site. The document is available for users with appropriate roles to search for and view.

Cancel approval

  1. Locate one or more documents for which you want to cancel approval by using the network place for the backward-compatible document library.
  2. Select the documents, right-click one of them, and then click Cancel Publishing.

    The approval process for this document ends, and SharePoint Portal Server publishes the document on the portal site. The document is available for users with appropriate roles to search for and view.

Related Topics

About the approval process for the backward-compatible document library
About document management and publishing
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