In 2016 on of my major projects was to build a process that would allow Information Secuirty to view all access requests in one view. To accomplish this I had to considered 3 objectives...

1. create a process that made it easy for users to quickly submit a request
2. create a process that make is simple for managers to approval/reject
3. create a process that made it easy for the admins on the backend to work with the data

What I came up with was the following...

A user would go to the request page to select a form

They would then select a form and fill it out (the design of the form was built through InfoPath)

The request would then be added in a SharePoint list on the backend where the admins could easily view the status of the approval etc.

Additionally when the form was submitted an email would be sent to the manager of the user that needing access with information on the request. Right from within Outlook the manager could approval/reject the request.

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