Preventing Assignees from Approving Their Own Changes (No Script Needed)
Here’s a simple way which i proved it works for me to prevent assignees from being added as approvers to their own change requests—using just a Business Rule, with no scripting required. This can be done in many way but in this method the BR has to be created in Approval (sysapproval_approver) table:
This technique is:
Easy to configure
You can limit the source table (e.g., only for Change Requests)
Steps:
Create a Business Rule that runs on Insert and Update.
Set the conditions so that it only applies to the source table you want (like change_request).
In the condition builder, ensure you check:
If the Assigned To is the same as the user creating the record.
If so, prevent them from being added as an approver in the Actions tab (see bellow)
Done!!
That’s it—no need for code! Once set up, the rule will stop the assignee from becoming an approver on their own changes.
