AwardNominator SmartInsights Reports - FAQs - How Does R57 Work When an AwardNominator Program Has More Than One Level of Approval?

With AwardNominator, clients can set up multiple levels of approval (up to 5), so that nominations can be reviewed by multiple people following a specific hierarchy of approvers. The nominee can only receive an award after the approver at the highest level has approved their nomination.

In this case, the Approval Date on R57 refers to the date the nomination was last reviewed by an approver. This does not necessarily mean that the award is ready to be sent to the nominee. This can be, for example, if an approver at the first level has given their approval, but the nomination is still awaiting a decision from the second level approver (which, in this example, is the final level).

Keeping with the example of a program with two levels of approval, clients may also see this flow if one of the approvers chooses to progress the nomination but change it to a different award type.

1. The award in the original nomination is displayed in the Award Type column of the report
2. The first level approver chooses to approve the nomination, but changes the award type before doing so
3. For as long as the nomination remains pending with the second level approver, the Approved Award Type and Approved Award Value fields will remain blank in the report
4. The second level approver can choose to approve the award type put forward at the first level, or change it again. Their choice will determine the values that will appear in the Approved Award Type and Approved Award Value fields once they have processed the nomination.