Timecard submissions

Summary:

Timecards are stuck in submittal status and won't get approved.

Content (required):

We have a custom Employee abstract role, in comparison to the standard role, users their submitted timecard statuses no longer get automatically approved.

What privilege / role is necessary for this auto-approval to work?

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