Create Group Approval in Workflow Run Script Action

[jmiskey]

We currently have a Run Script action in a workflow that dynamically creates a list of approvals based on a list of users.  It creates a separate approval for each person in the list.  It works quite well.  Here is what that code looks like:

//loop through approvers
			for (var j = 0; j < apps.length; j++) {
				var app = apps[j];

				//create approval
				var approval = new GlideRecord('sysapproval_approver');
				approval.initialize();
				approval.state = 'requested';
				approval.approver = app;
				approval.u_approval_type = 'Cognos: ' + pkg_name + ' Approval';
				approval.sysapproval = current.sys_id;   //Current is record that requires approval
				approval.insert();
			}

So "apps" is our list of users to create the approval for.

Now, I want to do the same sort of thing, but with Group Approvals instead.  So I want to create multiple Group Approvals for a list of groups that I have.  I imagine I could loop through each group, and then loop through each member in the group, and create an approval record for each one, but I think there probably is an easier way, if we can create a Group Approval record instead (and let ServiceNow handle the individual approvals part). 

I tried changing the table name in my GlideRecord to "sysapproval_group", and tried a few other changes, but it did not work for me (no errors, it just didn't create anything).  Does anyone know how to do something like above to create a Group Approval?

Thanks

[elphilli]

Hey Suseela,

Thanks for the code! But how can I create multiple "group" approvals if the groups are referencing a table I created that contains the groups, with users assigned to each group?