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How does the "Reassign Purchase Requests Users" utility work and is it safe to use?

Updated over 2 weeks ago

The "Reassign Purchase Requests Users" utility moves Purchase Requests that are awaiting approval with one user, to another user. This is useful if an approver is going on annual leave and you need to ensure any outstanding approvals are still dealt with.
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The utility is a standard process within FocalPoint and so should not cause any transactions to become stuck or lost as long as you make sure you select the correct users. The exception to this would be if there was a system crash, power cut or loss of network connection while the process was running - but this is a risk when doing any processing of any kind.
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The utility simply passes approvals from user A to user B and will not check their approval limits, whether they have permission to access the Purchase Request type or any other approval flow checks that you may have in place. Therefore we cannot guarantee that the recipient will be able to access and/or approve the transaction when it is received and you may need to adjust permissions and settings to allow them to do so.
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The process is irreversible, so please ensure you are absolute sure you have the correct users before using this utility

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