Approving Outbound Faxes

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Approving pending outbound faxes offers another level of security to the workflow of your organization. By requiring approval before outbound faxes can be transmitted by the fax server, FACSys helps eliminate unnecessary faxing and ensures that your fax resources are used properly.
      
The responsibility for approving outbound faxes is assigned in the FACSys user profiles at the fax server. If your account has been selected as the "Manager" in one or more FACSys user accounts, then you must approve or deny these users' pending outbound faxes.

The following example illustrates the flow of approving pending faxes:

1.	FACSys user John is identified as Sue's Manager (in Sue's FACSys user profile at the fax server).

2.	When Sue sends a fax, her fax message is listed in her Outbox folder with the status of "Pending Approval". Sue's pending fax is also listed in John's Pending Approval folder.

3.	John opens Sue's pending fax message. After reviewing the fax, John either approves or denies it by clicking the appropriate button in the fax message toolbar.

4.	Approved faxes are scheduled by the fax server. Denied faxes are returned to the originator.

          
If you are a FACSys Manager but you are not seeing the pending outbound faxes, verify the following:       
   

·	Make sure that you have been identified as the "Manager" in one or more FACSys user profiles.

·	Make sure that the following restriction is enabled in the user account(s): "Requires approval by assigned manager when sending faxes."

See also: Approving Messages