25.8 Adding a Business Role Approval Policy

The approval policy for the business role governs all business role life cycle events. Identity Governance contains a default approval policy that is assigned to each business role that you create.

The approval policy for the business role specifies all approval requirements for each business role defined, including whether approval is required when creating or modifying that business role.

Micro Focus recommends that your organization’s default policy require approval. A default policy that doesn’t require approval could result in roles being approved automatically when they are created. When your policy requires approval, you can submit each role for approval or select multiple draft roles and then select Actions > Submit for Approval to submit multiple roles for approval.

The default business role approval policy, which does not require approval, is applied to all business roles that you create. To change this you would have to change the default approval policy to require approval by owners or specify a list of approvers.

Two additional policies are provided for your convenience. One requires approval by the business owner (recommended) and another one that does not require approval. A global administrator or business role administrator can change or delete these sample policies.

You can create additional approval policies and apply them to existing business roles after you have created a business role. To change the business role default approval policy, select Default approval policy on the Approval Policies tab.

To create a new approval policy:

  1. Log in to Identity Governance as a Business Role or Global Administrator.

  2. Under Policy, select Business Roles.

  3. Select the Approval Policies tab.

  4. Select Add approval policy (+).

  5. Specify a name and description for the approval policy, then determine whether it is required or not.

  6. Select Save to save the policy.

You can change the approval policy for a group of business roles at one time by using the bulk action on the business role list. You can also download business role approval policies as json files using the bulk action menu. After editing, you can import the policies on the page that lists all approval policies.