JobNav Templates
"Template" means two different things in JobNav, and they don't share an owner, a purpose, or a location. If you're not sure which one you're looking at, this is the quickest way to tell.
Job Profile Templates
These live under Libraries → Template and define the content of a job profile:
- locked sections
- required language
- embedded instructions
that guide whoever's writing the profile.
They're built to match your HRIS, following the fields and structure your organization already has in your HRIS, rather than introducing a separate schema.
Job Profile Templates are content-driven, not a set of structured fields with allowable values. They're something your organization owns and manages directly, not a one-time setup handled during implementation.
Who can do what: Editors can apply templates to drafts. Only Admins can create or publish them.
Approval Templates
These live under Workflows > Approval Templates and define the architecture of an approval flow:
- how many stages
- how many approver slots
- the shape of the review process.
Job profile editors create a live approval flow for a job profile from a template and assign approvers to its slots. The approval flow's structure can't be changed once it is running, but approvers can still be added to open slots as the flow moves forward.
Who can do what: Any user can start a flow from a job profile draft. Only Admins can create or publish the approval flow templates themselves.
For a more detailed look at approval templates, see Managing Approval Templates.
For the full walkthrough, see Approval Flows.
The short version
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Job Profile Template | Approval Template |
|---|---|---|
| Defines | Content of a job profile | Structure of a review process |
| Contains people? | No | No, people are added when a flow is created from it |
| Who creates/publishes it | Admin | Admin |
| Who uses it day to day | Editors and above, applying it to a draft | Any user, starting a flow from it |
| Found under | Libraries > Template | Workflows > Approval Templates |