Open the Flow Designer, access the Flow Designer tool or platform where you are creating your workflow. Add an approval step, drag and drop an "Approval" or "Request Approval" action into your flow to create the approval step. Configure the approval step, set up the details of the approval, such as the subject, description, and the assigned approver. Add a condition, after the approval step, add a condition action that checks if the requestor and the approver are the same person. Depending on the platform you are using, the specific steps may vary, but the logic remains the same. Configure the condition, configure the condition to compare the requestor and the approver. This may involve selecting the appropriate fields or variables and using an equality comparison. Define actions based on the condition, if the requestor and the approver are the same, you can configure the actions to skip the approval step. This could involve bypassing the approval action or redirecting the flow to a different step. Save and test the flow, save your flow configuration and test it with different scenarios, including cases where the requestor and approver are the same and different. Verify that the flow behaves as expected and skips the approval when appropriate.
