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Approval Flow, but not to yourself

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Hello! So I have an approval flow that requires approval from 4 people : The person's manager, their Branch manager, their VP, and the CEO. My flow automatically looks for which Branch their in, and sends an approval to those 4 people. It looks something like this : 

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However, a Branch manager might make this request, in which case he does not need approval from himself. Is there a way to dynamically tell it to not get approval from himself? The only way I can think to do this is to do a Condition, for if Job Title = Branch Manager, and then split it do 2 different approvals, one with all 4 people if they're not a branch manager, and one with approval from 3 people if they are a branch manager. But then I have 2 different approvals, so I don't know what complications that would cause.

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  • Unknown geen idee Profile Picture
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    Re: Approval Flow, but not to yourself

    Dear Charles,

    I don't see how you would need 2 flows. I would try to generate an array of approvers in the flow and with some conditions (as you already mentioned) amend the array (or not) depending on the conditions. You can remove approvers if conditions are met.

    Then you can use the array of approvers in the Approval action. 

     

    Hope the suggestion helps, happy flowing,

    Koen

  • CharlesBrewer Profile Picture
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    Re: Approval Flow, but not to yourself

    @Koen5 
    Not 2 flows, I was thinking more like a condition with 2 different approvals. It only uses one, of course, depending on the condition. I'm not sure exactly how to do what you're saying maybe 😕

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