Revise a TAE Appointment
Overview
This job aid shows approvers and payroll personnel how to push back a Temporary Academic Employment (TAE) appointment so prior approvers can make revisions.
Background
- A workflow moves TAE transactions to a series of approvers.
- Each approver has the option to push back the appointment to a previous approver to make revisions.
Revise an appointment
Step 1: Click the Navbar button.

Step 2: Open the menu.

Step 3: Navigate to CSU TAE My Approval.
- Menu > CSU Temp Academic Employment > CSU TAE Approval Workflow > CSU TAE My Approval page
- Alternately, use the CSU TAE Approval Chart tile to navigate to this page.
Step 4: Enter any search criteria for the transaction you want to push back:
- Business Unit: Verify that the Business Unit is correct.
- EE Group
- Dept ID
- Job Code
- Position Nbr
- Approval Status
- Approval Level
- Term
- Session Code
- Approver ID
- Empl ID
- Submitter ID
- Look Back Dt
- Appt#


Step 5: Click Search.

Step 6: Open the Approval tab.

Step 7: Click the Pushback lookup to select a prior step in the workflow.

Step 8: Select the appropriate step in the workflow to push back to.

Step 9: Select the step in which the revision is required.
If you select 0, send an email directly to the originator.
Enter a valid reason in the Reason field.

Step 10: In the Comments section, indicate the approver on whose behalf you are pushing back.
- The comments field is visible to the approvers, so use this field to relay information.
- Include the reason for the pushback and the name of the approver on whose behalf you are executing the pushback.
- Keep comments within the character limit.

Step 11: Click Save & Submit.

- The system reverts the workflow to the specified prior step.
A note to the final approver
IMPORTANT: Currently, mid-process revisions cause the Action/Reason to update to an incorrect value. Always review the Action/Reason if Revision is in the Other Action field.
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