Is this a valid scenario for reviewing access requests in the approval management page?

This is not a valid description of how a canceled access request is handled. A cancellation terminates the request before it completes. Once an access request has entered a concluded Canceled state, it is no longer simply a pending approval waiting for an administrator to substitute a decision for the assigned reviewer.

Approval Management does give administrators powerful controls over pending governance work. Administrators can inspect requests, reassign current approvers, send reminders, cancel requests, and, where supported, overwrite the current approval step. Overwriting an approver is fundamentally different from reversing an already canceled request: the administrator is acting on the current approval step of an active request.

SailPoint documentation explicitly identifies Canceled as a concluded status and defines cancellation as termination of the request. The administrator's overwrite capability applies to an approval step, not to resurrecting a request after cancellation. A new request would normally be required when access is still needed after the original request has been terminated.

Study Guide Reference: Access Management — Approval Management, Access Request Status, Administrative Approval Actions.

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