Avoid approving request when requestor is part of the assignees

[Community_User]

Originally posted on March 27 2020 at 11:37 UTC

When creating a workflow that would have approval inside, I found out there is a way to tell "If the requestor is the / one of the approver(s), the request is automatically accepted.

For example, if we use the Manager Approval, we can put before the below script in a If / Else Condition box to accept the request if manager is doing the request :

requestedby.username!=user.owner

However, I was wondering if we can insert in If / Else Condition box a SQL Query, as the assignees would be based on Custom Assignement.

Thanks for advising.

SSM Version : 5.4.0.

[Community_User]

Originally posted on March 27 2020 at 14:04 UTC

There is a Custom Assignment block in v5.4 that accepts SQL queries.

[Community_User]

Originally posted on March 27 2020 at 14:09 UTC

Hi Avinash,

Yes, this is what we are using for assigning the approval to a specific SAV Role :

My question is, as this is custom assignement, the following :

Is there any way to tell "if the requestor is part of the results of this custom assignment, therefore the system automatically approves the request" ?

[Community_User]

Originally posted on March 27 2020 at 14:21 UTC

I believe the default behavior is that if the requestor also happens to be the approver, then the approval goes to the Admin.

[Community_User · Accepted solution]

Originally posted on March 27 2020 at 14:30 UTC

I have tested in a 5.4.1 that when requestor is the approver, it actually goes to a complete request. Need to check this on 5.4.0 again and confirm.

We can mark this as answered.