Unable to define approver from variable field in Approver trigger, Flow Designer

[Daniel O_Connor]

Hi all,

I'm creating a pretty run of the mill Workflow to trigger of a Catalog item. However in Flow Designer, I cannot seem to be able to define the Approval by correctly.

This Catalog item asks the user to define the approver, which is a reference field against the user table. However when I go to define who is the approver, I'm unable to select the variable from the catalog item

Do I need to use the new scripting function that I see since I upgraded to New York, to do this?

Also noted that I want to append another variable as part of the short description, but again Flow Designer will not let me pull the variable in from the pill picker.

I do this pretty regularly in my custom apps, but struggling to work out how to make this work for a catalog item

[aj_becker · Accepted solution]

Add an action as step one saying "Get Catalog Variables".  Get the variables from the specific catalog item you are using.  

Then you can say Anyone Approves and drag the specific variable you need over.  You can even dot walk through to grab a manager or something related.

[Daniel O_Connor]

Wow, never even spotted that action buried at the bottom !

Thanks a million, that has sorted it