"Approval For" field not populating in Approval

[Tim Wmson]

I have a couple of approvals that work by populating the Approval For field. However, I created a new approval for a different table and it isn't populating the Approval For field. what am I missing?

[Brad Tilton]

There's another field called Approving [document_id] which is a document ID field which may hold those values, so I would check there first.

[Tim Wmson]

I am seeing the values in document_id but you can't dot-walk to that field for values because it's an array

[Brad Tilton]

Yep. Is your approval running against a non-task table? I think that's the circumstance where it uses the document ID field instead since the approval for field references the task table, I but I don't remember for sure. If that's the case you may have to get at the data differently than dot walking.

[Tim Wmson · Accepted solution]

We fixed this by running a script which went back and extended the Task table to the Purchase Order table. Unless the table extends Task you can't run approvals on it