How can I access the approvers from a workflow approval step in a run script later on in that same workflow?

[jordi3]

Hello,

This is probably a stupid question, but I can't seem to find an answer in the documentation or in the community forums.

How can I access the approvers from a workflow approval step in a run script step later on in that same workflow?

Looking at the image below, I have a simple workflow in a London (p4) developer instance with an approval step, some timer thing, and a run script. 

If the approval step results in an approve, I want the run script to make an API call containing the name(s) of the approver(s) and the item that was approved.  For this particular post, I am more interested in getting the names of the approvers.  I currently have a script attached to the approval step that sets the approver name to a workflow.scartchpad variable, but it is hard-coded as you can see below.

gs.info('Inside of Test Approval');
workflow.scratchpad.jordi = 'admin'; // TODO: get approver dynamically
gs.info('Workflow Scratchpad Jordi: ' + workflow.scratchpad.jordi);

gs.info('Inside of Run Script');
gs.info('The transient workflow scratchpad jordi variable: ' + workflow.scratchpad.jordi);

gs.info('Making API Call...');
try {
	var r = new sn_ws.RESTMessageV2...
} catch(ex) {
	var message = ex.message;
}

gs.info('Processing Response...');

...

How can I dynamically set this scratchpad variable? Maybe something like workflow.scratchpad.jordi = workflow.getVariable('approvers');?

Please let me know if you have any ideas or resources.

[dvp]

If the table that workflow is running on is not a task extended, please use

gs.info(rec.get('sysapproval', current.document_id)); // prints false

[jordi3]

This workflow is based on the sys_audit_role table.

I tried the 

gs.info(rec.get('sysapproval', current.document_id));

but it also printed false.

I think I'll just go with the "Set the approver within the approval script" suggestion.

[dvp]

if the approver value is coming from the table that the workflow is on, then you can use

current.APPROVER_FIELD_NAME.getDisplayValue()

[jordi3]

Thank you for responding.

I tried current.users.getDisplayValue() and I got an undefined error.  Could you give an example of what that APPROVER_FIELD_NAME might be?  

[mrkesu]

You might be able to do the same on "Approvals" as I do on some "Catalog Tasks".

I have no idea if this will work, and no time to test it right now;

The problem I ran into is that I want to get some information from the tasks later in the process, but there's no built-in way to get any identifier for the new tasks (that I could find at least), so I do it by script.

In the script-section for the Catalog Task, I do something like this:

workflow.scratchpad.my_taskid = task.setNewGuid();

I can then access "workflow.scratchpad.my_taskid" later in the workflow to then access any information on that specific catalog task (via GlideRecord for example).