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title: "Approve or Reject a Lab Report"
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last_updated: "2024-07-23T02:21:02.498Z"
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# Approve or Reject a Lab Report

A user with the Project Manager permission for the Project can Approve or Reject Lab Reports.

Approving a Lab Report indicates the results have been reviewed and are accepted. 

Rejecting a Lab Report indicates the results have been reviewed and are not acceptable. The Lab may need to be notified and Lab Report revisions requested.

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A new version of a Lab Report can be imported only if the prior version has been rejected or has not yet been approved.

An approved Report can not be overwritten by a later version without specifically rejecting it to allow an overwrite.

On Approval the Status and Comments will be displayed along with the Date and who Approved it.   A Revoke option is available to Project Managers.

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Note that results from Rejected Lab Reports will still be available in Data Views, such as Chem Tables, unless they are specifically excluded using a filter.  To permanently exclude this data from Data Views you can delete the Laboratory Report.