How to make Approvals Accepted Approved And No Longer Required?

[chris_choi]

Hello,

I feel this question is pretty straight forward, but wasn't able to find anything directly related, so my apologizes if this was asked before.

In our Change Module we have a CAB Approval that is currently awaiting Everyone to Approve. The reasoning behind this was we we didn't want the CAB approval to be approved without key approvals before moving forward. So what typically happens is when enough approvals come in from the right individuals our Change Manager will go in and mass update the Remaining "Requested" approvals to Approved and then to "No Longer Required". Approving all of them will move the workflow forward and setting them back to no longer requested keeps track of who didn't actually approve.

What we are wondering is if there is an easy way to set this approval so that it will accept both Approved and No Longer Required for a everyone to approve setting? This way the CM can just go in and set them to no longer required and the workflow can move forward.

I imagine we would use conditions based on script, but the extent of what I am familiar with is how to set the # of approvals, # of rejections, % of approves, etc.

Thanks to anyone who is able to provide any insight, on what we are trying to accomplish.

[SME]

Hey, I think you can :-

1. Modify the approval activity and set Wait For as "Condition based on script".

2. Here you can write a script for when to set the approval activity to approved and rest of the approvals to "No Longer required" and move the workflow forward.

[chris_choi]

We were looking for the opposite where the Change manager would set the remaining approvals to no longer required and the approval which is set to Wait for Everyone to Approve would also accept no longer required.

[Ken83]

This is what our approval activity looks like. And instead of your Change Manager having to physically go in and set the approvals, if you have the conditions for it, you can just script it to set the values automatically. If you set it up correctly, the workflow will respond to the approval being set to No Longer Required.

[chris_choi]

Thanks for the suggestion, definitely something to consider.