Approval workflow

Approval workflow

Carta LP Portfolio Analytics supports a flexible four-eyes and six-eyes workflow. This can be left optional or set to mandatory.

When you finish validating a document, you should follow your team's review process.
4-eyes or 6-eyes approval flows are optional by default, but can be made mandatory.

1. On the metric validation screen, click the Finish button top right

2. In the dialog, chose 'Submit for approval'

3. Select the workflow stage and a reviewer (optional). ​If you are reviewing, you may also send the document back for validation by selecting ‘In progress’ status.​

4. If 4-eyes approval is enforced by your system settings then the following rules apply:
   

   1. The validator user must be a different person from the reviewer/approver

   2. The last user to validate a document is set as the ASSIGNED TO user;

   3. Once the document is moved to PENDING APPROVAL, the assigned user can not be changed

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Workflow stages are:

• In progress

• Pending approval​

• Pending second approval​

If no additional reviews are required, select the 'Commit metrics to database' option instead. This will complete the process and submit the extracted data to the database for export.

Tip: Reviewers can be selected directly from the inbox too.

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Enforcing 4-eyes review workflows

Go to My organization > Your tenant name > Settings > Validation workflow to make the validation flow mandatory or optional. You can decide which document types require 4-eyes review workflow and which don't.

You can also activate a strict preparer / checker workflow, whereby the reviewer (checker) user is prevented from making any corrections or changes to a validated document. In this scenario, if a reviewed document needs corrections, the reviewer must return it to the validator (preparer) user first.

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