Approve button missing.

I have the following users with their permissions on a particular forder:
author: read/write
approver: no permissions, is mentioned as a approver in a single step approval process.
Issues:
1. approver does not see the folder nor the document that is submitted for approval, in the KM Navigation iView created for this repository. I was expecting to see the document and its content folder once the document is submitted for approval.
2. Approer does get an email. But that is no mechanism for the user to approve it. It just has Actions>approval>stop approval process in the details display.
Any responses are appreciated.
Regards,
Kumar

Hi Natarajan,
you have to give the approver as minimum Read Permission for the folder in which the approver should approve documents.
The approver can see and access the documents in the moment the document is set to status "Submit for Approval" and this approver is assigned to the workflow step.
regards,
Anja

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