Approval sequence for work items
I need to establish an ordered sequence for approvals within a specific work item.
Is it possible to do that? The challenge I face is to make the approvals really occurr in
strict order, not allowing one approval to complete if the previous ones haven't been closed.
Thanks in advance for your help
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Hello Sergio,
I would review Lesson 4: Define a workflow with approval tracking
and create a new workflow to reflect the approval sequence.
Hope it helps,
Eric
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Thank you very much Eric,
I have already saw this and looks like it might help somehow.
The problem in my case is that the order for approvals is expected to change
for every work item instance (for a given work item type). The sequence should be defined
by someone at the beginning of the workflow.
To clarify the problem let's suppose you have a "Project Change Request"
work item type that has to be approved by two different areas within
the organization AreaA and AreaB. For "Change Request 101" work item
is needed to define the Approval order like AreaA first and AreaB later,
(no possibiliy for AreaB to approve if AreaA hasn't approved it yet)
but for "CR 102" should go the other way around, first AreaB, and finally AreaA.
Is it possible to establish an order enforcement like this?
Should I consider to implement it with an script to extend this functionality?
Or any way to define approval dependencies for work item instances so that for
CR101 AreaB depends on AreaA and the opposite on CR102?
Thank you very much again for any help!
Comments Hello Sergio,
in this context, I would start with Ralph's Create Approval Work Item Save Participant
article and create approvals depending on some attribute (that differentiate between CR101 and CR102).
Eric.
Excellent post Eric, I am going to try some coding... I will let you know!
Sergio
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