How to skip Ask for approval action based on condition in Flow designer

[Sriharsha3]

Hello

Im configuring a flow with some actions after appoval. I need to skip this approval if the requester is manger/ director etc. How can i add this on ask for approval action to skip and then perform action.

This can be done by an if condition, but it is duplicate work and needed a solution to fix this.

Thanks 

[Ankur Bawiskar]

Hi,

You need to first determine that using the if condition

Then use the Ask for Approval action

please share what steps you have added so far

Regards
Ankur

[Sriharsha3]

Hi Ankur,

Yes i can use if condition and then with Ask for Approval. But doing so, i need to repeat the actions and flow logic again for both cases. I mean there are some 3 + actions and many flow logic conditions later. If i use this if condition, then i need to repeat everything again, as we dont have any way to connect to the already created actions & flow logic.

[Ankur Bawiskar]

@Sriharsha 

That is how the design is.

Same goes when you use Workflow.

You usually use If Activity to determine if approval has to trigger or not.

Regards
Ankur

[Sriharsha3]

You can connect to further activities in workflow. I mean after if condition, both flow line with approval and skipping approval can be connected to single activity. Its not the case in flow & duplicate actions need to be created . I was thinking whether we can add scripting in ask for approval action to skip based on condition. If yes, what can i refer to as i'm new to flow designer scripting.