Parallel Approval Workflow

Use Case

Parallel Approval Workflow - requires approval from a group of people, in any order - they can submit their responses (approve/deny) concurrently.

Configuration

Pricefx approval workflow consists of a sequence of approval steps - ApprovalStepDTO.

To make an approval step parallel, you need to:

Optional Behaviors

One User in More Approval Groups

In the case, when a user can be a member of more groups within a single parallel approval step, you can set up a behavior of the approval/denial actions for the parallel approval step.

  • The user can execute an approval/denial separately and independently on behalf of several groups (to which they belong) of the step. See the method withSingleUserMultiApprovalAllowed(boolean).

    • TRUE - A user is allowed to do more approvals (on behalf of more groups), within a parallel approval step.

    • FALSE (default) - A user can make only one "approval", i.e., only on behalf of one group, within a parallel approval step.

  • The user will approve all parallel groups, he/she is entitled to, in single approve action. Remember, that you can allow this behavior only if the user is allowed to do the more approvals within a parallel approval step. See the method withParallelStepApprovalAllowed(boolean).

    • TRUE - A single approve action will cause the approval of all groups (the user is entitled to) within the parallel approval step.

      • In the UI, when the user is allowed not to select a specific group, and click the Approve button. This way they will approve on behalf of all groups, to which they belong.

      • In the Email, the Approve button will approve on behalf of all groups, to which they belong.

    • FALSE (default) - User’s approve action will approve only on behalf of one group.

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