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,

The issue is when you use Ask for Approval it doesn't have any condition.

So you cannot make it conditional.

Regards
Ankur

[Sriharsha3]

Yes, trying to minimize the duplicate actions that needs to be created again. Yes, Thanks for the help.

[Ankur Bawiskar]

Hi,

you can even avoid inserting the record into sysapproval_approver table if the condition doesn't match in that way no notification would be sent and no record would be created

Regards
Ankur

[asifnoor]

Hi,

Add a if activity in the workflow and there you can check like this

answer = ifScript();
function ifScript() {
  //check here yoru conditions
  var user = gs.getUser().getUserByID(current.request.requested_for.toString());
  if(user.hasRole("manager") || user.hasRole("director")) {
    return 'yes';
  } else {
    return 'no';
  }
}

Link yes activity to the workflow.

Link no to link to the activity after approval.

Mark the comment as a correct answer and helpful if this helps to solve the problem.

[Sriharsha3]

Hi asif,

Not workflow, its for flow in flow designer.