Is there any way that you can have approvals run in parallel within a request item?

[ritaaudi]

Hi: I'm not having any luck running 2 approvals in parallel within a request item. It seems that one approval has to finish before the second one starts. Is there a way around this? Like perhaps kick off 2 requests items within the master request item, or something along those lines?

Thank you! Rita

[Michael Ritchie]

I don't know enough about your catalog item and variables to tell you what If condition to set.   Is there a reason you are restricting it to 3 groups?   If not the second approach is much more flexible. Basically your first request item will be for the first group and it can generate the other request items via script.   Again advantage here is you wouldn't have the 3 group cap.

[ritaaudi]

I am open to having more than 3. Just did want them to select 10 at once. Perhaps I am not understanding the second approach. Would the catalog item take only one group per user? In other words the requestor will have to fill out 3 orders for the same user? Thanks again.

[ritaaudi]

Hi Michael: Thanks to your advice, when I moved the approvals from the subworkflow to the main workflow with the if condition, the approvals started running in parallel!!!

[Michael Ritchie]

Awesome that is great news.   Do you want to explore my other suggestion of allowing for more than 3 applications?   I was actually in the process of putting together an example for you if you like.

[ritaaudi]

Absolutely, would love to see that...