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‎01-04-2019 06:51 AM
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.
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‎01-04-2019 09:29 AM
In the approver user activity, use generate the approval via script and there itself initialize the scratchpad variable
eg answer = [];
var gr = new GlideRecord("sys_user");
gr.addQuery("user_name", "able.tuter");
gr.query();
while (gr.next()) {
answer.push(gr.getValue("sys_id"));
}
workflow.scratchpad.approvers = answer;
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‎01-07-2019 11:29 AM
What do you think I could substitute in where you have task.setNewGuid()?
That's really where I'm stuck. I imagine it's some workflow variable, but maybe not...