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title: "Configuration"
description: "Under Configuration, you define and manage the settings that apply to the company chosen in the company selector. These settings impact all users for this company."
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  en: https://docs.vismasoftware.no/approval/online_help/configuration/index.md
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> Documentation index: https://docs.vismasoftware.no/approval/online_help/configuration/llms.txt


# Configuration

Last modified July 10, 2024

> Under Configuration, you define and manage the settings that apply to the company chosen in the company selector. These settings impact all users for this company.


For user-level settings, such as your preferences or notifications, go to [Settings](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/approval/online_help/settings/index.md).

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## In this section


- [About substitutes](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/approval/online_help/configuration/about_substitutes/index.md): You can define another user as your temporary substitute to take over your tasks during your absence. System administrators can assign substitutes for all…

- [Assign substitutes](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/approval/online_help/configuration/assign_substitutes/index.md): You can choose to select a substitute to take over your tasks for a period of time. You can add the substitute for yourself and the system administrator can…

- [Substitutes assigned for approvers](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/approval/online_help/configuration/substitutes_assigned_for_approvers/index.md): In the Substitutes assigned for approvers window you can view a list of substitutions and create new ones.

- [Due settings](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/approval/online_help/configuration/due_settings/index.md): In the Due settings window, you define the settings on which the due dates of documents and tasks are based, if these are not supplied by the other service.

- [Managers](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/approval/online_help/configuration/managers/index.md): If you use one of our Visma services where you register your employees with their managers, you can choose to assign approvers based on the nearest manager of…

- [Departments](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/approval/online_help/configuration/departments/index.md): You can create the departments in the other service and these are automatically sent to Visma.net Approval. As a system administrator in Visma.net Approval, you…

- [Roles](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/approval/online_help/configuration/roles/index.md): An approver can be assigned a role. Visma.net Approval comes pre-configured with a role named Approver (default) and you can add more roles as you wish. These…

- [Projects](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/approval/online_help/configuration/projects/index.md): You can create the project unit types and project units in the other service and these are automatically sent to Visma.net Approval.

- [Organisation chart](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/approval/online_help/configuration/organisation_chart/index.md): If you use one of our Visma services where you register your employees in an Organisation chart, you can choose to assign approvers based on the organisation…

- [Cost units](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/approval/online_help/configuration/cost_units/index.md): Setting up the cost units is the first step in setting up the workflow to determine who will approve the incoming documents. This window contains some steps…

- [Workflows](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/approval/online_help/configuration/workflows/index.md): The workflow determines if and how an incoming document is distributed to approvers.