Flow Designer action "Ask For Approval" -- send approval req to manager of group?

[David Hepburn]

I am familiar with building flows that send approvals to groups.  However, I have a request from a customer to send an approval to the manager of a group.

I'm not seeing anything in the Flow Designer GUI that would do this, and my queries to co-workers, AIs, and the internet haven't yielded a clear answer.

Is anyone aware of a way to do this in Flow Designer without scripting it?

If scripting is the only answer, would anyone be able to help get me started with a script that would do this?  I'd like to specify the group and have the approval go to the manager (sys_user_group.manager).

Thanks!

[jonsan09]

It you want to minimize customization and scripting, you could always have a record look up action to get the group object. Then dot walking to the groups manager and pass that to the approval action. If wanted to make that reusable you could package those two actions into a subflow and output if it was approved or not (RITM/Group as inputs). Then you could use it multiple times in multiple flows. 

[Ankur Bawiskar]

@David Hepburn 

Best way -> include group manager as group member and rest will be taken care OOTB

OR

You can use scripted flow approval and then grab the group members and concatenate that with group manager and then use it in inline script

Scripted Approvals in Flow Designer with Flow Variables 
something like this

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[Ankur Bawiskar]

@David Hepburn 

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[Utpal Dutta]

Hi @David Hepburn ,

I think @jonsan09 is right. Why don't you just lookup the group using "Lookup record" step and then while using "Ask for approval" action put approval for "Lookup record.manager".

It is OOB and should work.

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Thanks,

Utpal