Hello
We have a customized table that is used to track leases for our clients. Recently a request has come to me to automate the termination of leases. According to the proposed process, they want approvals to terminate sent out to the appropriate managers, and approval would kick off the process.
The problem is that the Lease table we are using is not extended from Task, and that I am aware that approvals are used on the Task table. My immediate thought was to create a new table that would work in sync with the Lease table, but be extended from Task so that we can leverage the Approval Engine. That got shot down by our project manager, as per our company policy, any modifications or extensions to the Task table must be handled by the CAB and that could take upwards of 3-4 months as there is a backlog of requests for modifications or extensions to the Task Table.
It has been suggested that we create our own approval engine specifically for Lease so that we can get around the CAB restriction and it was also suggested that it would take a couple of weeks to create a standalone approval engine. I however do not want to do such a thing as this poses a maintenance nightmare and duplication of methodology. However, CAB is refusing to fast track this approval for us to extend Task.
Is there any other way to hook approvals to a table not extended from Task?
thanks
