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Role: Administrator
Administrators have access to all approval actions that regular approvers do, plus one additional power: Force approve.
Force approve lets an administrator push a submission through immediately, bypassing all approval requirements — including multi-approver strategy gates.
When to use it:
- A required approver is unavailable and the change is time-sensitive
- The submission was inadvertently routed to approvers who are no longer responsible
- An emergency correction needs to reach live data before the normal review cycle completes
How to use it:
- Open the submission from Settings → Approvals & Submissions
- Scroll to the bottom of the review panel — the Force approve button appears below the Reject button (administrators only)
- A warning dialog appears explaining that all approval requirements will be bypassed
- Enter an optional reason for the override
- Click Force approve to apply immediately
This action is permanent and fully logged. Force approve cannot be undone through the UI. Every force approval is recorded in the audit log with the action type
force_approved and includes the administrator's identity and the reason (if provided). The review history on the submission also shows the action with a [Force approved by administrator] prefix.What happens after force approve:
All staged changes are written to live data immediately — the same as a normal approval. The submitter receives a notification email. An orange "Force approved" confirmation banner is shown in the review panel.