When do you enable submission phases for an approval process?

• A. When you set up the approval unit hierarchy
• B. When you assign the approval unit hierarchy to a scenario, period and a year
• C. When you set up the member properties for the entity
• D. When you start the approval process for an approval unit on the Manage Approvals page

Answer: (A)

Submission phases are defined as part of configuring the approval workflow, which you set up when you create the approval unit hierarchy. By establishing the hierarchy, you lay out the units, the order of approvals, and where phases will occur. Enabling submission phases then activates that phased routing so submissions move through the planned sequence of approvals. Linking the hierarchy to a specific scenario, period, or year just applies the workflow to those data contexts and doesn’t enable the phased behavior. Setting member properties for an entity is unrelated to the approval workflow configuration, and starting the approval process simply begins the workflow using whatever phases have already been defined.