Cannot add employees or change their approval limits as I get an error that says the employee is not an approver. However, they are set up as approvers because they are already in functioning approval routes
This message will come up if the Employee does not have approval authority for all of the objects that can be approved by the Route you are trying to add them to.
Compare check marks on the Employee/Options tab/Authorities tab with check marks on the Approval route/Details tab.
The Employee must have authority to approve at least all, can be more, objects types than are used by the route.
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