The Mandatory Design Approval feature offers the option of having a mandatory content/design approval by a secondary person within the Static Campaigns module.
Note: To enable the Mandatory Design Approval feature, contact Broadsign Services.
Mandatory Design Approval
Static Campaigns
The Mandatory Design Approval feature prevents the installation of unapproved content or designs. A designated secondary person must approve all new content or designs.
Effects of Enabling this Feature
When this feature is enabled for your instance:
- All previously approved or rejected designs will retain their status.
- All designs with a Pending Approval status will retain that status.
- All new designs uploaded will inherit the Pending Approval status by default.
Work Order Generation
- The system does not create a work order for a design that has the Pending Approval status.
- If a Campaign is not contracted, then no work orders are generated.
- If a Campaign is Contracted, the system can only generate a work order for an approved design.
Design Creation
The Approval process will be triggered as soon as a design is created in the system.
You can create a design from the following paths:
- Operations → Campaigns → Design tab
- Operations → Operations → Static Copies
You can create a design with or without uploading a file, depending on where you choose to create the design.
Tip: When a design is created without a file, you can still upload an image later by using the Attachments tab in the design details.
Note: PDFs that are uploaded as an image for a design will not be rendered in the interface.
You must define a list of users who can approve designs by assigning them the Approval job title.
The user who uploaded or created the design will not be on the list of possible approvers for their designs when requesting content approval.
To set up the list of approvers:
- Access Admin in the top-left menu, click the Workforce tab, and then the Users tile.
- Select a user who will approve designs or content.
- In the Basic Information tab, click the
icon to edit the user information. - Select Approval as the Job Title for the user who will approve designs or content.
- Click the Roles tab.
- Be sure to check the Copy Management User role.
This presents the filter search window.
See Roles Overview for more information.
All new designs that are uploaded or created, including the ones identified as fillers, will be set to the Pending Approval status.
To use the file, users must send an Approval Request to a secondary person that can approve the creative.
To request content approval:
Static Campaigns
- Open the specific design for which you want to request content approval.
- In the Basic Info tab, click the
icon at the top. - In the menu that is displayed, select the Request Content Approval option.
- Select the contact and click Yes to confirm the email request.
The Request Content Approval window is displayed.
The system will display the contact detail of the Content Approval contacts that you have set up (see Set up the List of Approvers).
Note: A user cannot approve any of their uploaded or created design.
A pop-up will indicate that the email(s) have been sent successfully.
Once the email has been sent, you can see the status of the customer Approval in the design itself, by clicking the Content Approval Requests tab (Content Approval Requests Tab Details and Info).
Note: If you have requested approval from several users and some of them approve or reject the content, the last to approve or reject the design takes precedence over the others.
Once a user has requested approval on a design, the selected Approver receives an email. The email received by the Approver will look like the following:
Note: Users can modify the email before sending it over.
To approve or reject a design:
Static Campaigns
- Click the here link in the email to access the design to be approved.
- Either click Approve or Reject. Give Rejection reasons if necessary.
Once the Approver approves the content or design, it shows as Approved and can have work orders generated.
If the Approver rejects the content or design, it is listed as Rejected and cannot play and will continue to not have work orders generated.
If you have an Approval set as a job title, you can approve several static copies (designs) at the same time. You do not need to have received an email request to approve or reject designs.
Note: A user cannot approve any of their uploaded or created design.
Note: The status from a bulk approve (Accepted or Rejected) is not logged in the Content Approval Requests tab of a design.
To bulk approve designs:
Static Campaigns
- Access Operations in the top-left menu, click the Operations tab, and then the Static Copies tile.
- Search and select the static copies to approve.
- Click the Approve Designs
or Reject Designs 
icon.
This presents the filter search window.
When the Site Design Approval workflow is used, the Content Approval Requests tab of the design is populated with the necessary approval information.
- The Site column remains empty.
- The Notes column contains the rejection reason if the design was rejected.
- The Affected Campaigns column displays the Sales Contract # in which the design was assigned or scheduled.
- The Resend Approval Request
button allows you to re-send the approval email to the corresponding email address.
When performing searches in Static Copies, you can use the Design Approval filter to filter:
- Approved
- Pending Approval
- Rejected
