Workflow Approval Group is skipped and approved?

Nolan3
Kilo Guru

Hello All,

Can anyone shed some light on how a workflow approval group can be skipped and Approved at the same time?  

The issue is when our final approval is done on a standard change it somehow goes to skipped and runs a script that shows a message "'No Approver present. Please request System Administrator to configure Approvers" which has prompted the questions as to what is wrong.  

The standard change is then usable in the system but the work flow indicates it is waiting for a condition.

Note this is not the out of the box standard change work flow it was custom by our implementer so not sure how to resolve.

Here are screen shot to provide more details.   Note this is the work flow from a standard change that was completed.   I can also confirm that there is a valid user in the approval group because that user did an approval.

Thank you for your help in advance.  

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Nolan3
Kilo Guru

Just updating for anyone else who may have this issue.   I resolved it by double clicking on the skipped branch of the group approval that was doing skipped and approved and adding a condition.   Skipped branch had a blank condition and the approved branch had a condition looking for both skipped and approved.



Approved condition before:  


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Update approved condition:


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Updated skipped condition.  



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Ankur Bawiskar
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Hi Nolan,



Did you check group has any member or not. If no member then it will be auto-approved?


Check the group configured has some member or not. If no member then add some user to that group and test the functionality



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Thanks


Ankur


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Ankur
Certified Technical Architect  ||  9x ServiceNow MVP  ||  ServiceNow Community Leader

Hello Ankur,



Thanks for commenting and yes the group has one member in it which did an approval.   I don't understand how it can be both approved and skipped shouldn't it be one or the other?  


Hi Nolan,



One case would be that if some user if member of that group but doesn't have email address then also it will be auto-approved. Not sure on skipped action



Regards


Ankur


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Ankur
Certified Technical Architect  ||  9x ServiceNow MVP  ||  ServiceNow Community Leader

Nolan3
Kilo Guru

Just updating for anyone else who may have this issue.   I resolved it by double clicking on the skipped branch of the group approval that was doing skipped and approved and adding a condition.   Skipped branch had a blank condition and the approved branch had a condition looking for both skipped and approved.



Approved condition before:  


find_real_file.png


Update approved condition:


find_real_file.png



Updated skipped condition.  



find_real_file.png