Child Organization

Workflow approval rules and approvers can be inherited, after they are enabled, by the children of a Buying Organization, and further children down the line. It is important to know how Inheritance works within various levels of the Buying Organization hierarchy.

For example, any approver assigned to a rule must be a member of the Buying Organization for which the rule is being configured. If an approver isn't designated for a rule within a Buying Organization, the Buying Organization will inherit approvers from its parent.

However, an Administrator may override a configuration:

• Some configurations offer the option to Propagate to all Child Organizations by selecting the check box, and clicking [Save].
• A child Buying Organization can be re-configured to override configurations inherited from a parent Buying Organization.

To configure a child Buying Organization independent of its parent:

1. Go to the expanded Tree Menu.
2. Go to Organization | Parent Buying Organization Name | Child Buying Organization Name | Attributes
3. Look under Attributes to find and edit the attributes of the Child Buying Organization.

An organization must have child organizations in order to have Propagate to All Child Organizations as an option. Also, only administrators with the Enterprise or SuperBorg Scope privilege have the Propagate to All Child Organizations as an option. See Users for information.