Multiple approvals for workflows

Zaiah2008's picture

Has anybody figured out a way to create a system where a user can enter approvals for multiple separate workflows? We have a hardware ordering workflow and would like users to be able to go in and approve all the requests that are currently waiting for their approval so that they dont have to go to each link seperately to approve. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

stuper's picture

Multiple approval

 You have different options based on where the tasks are going. If you're using PM you might be able to get a custom group action to approve all tasks created in the hardware ordering process, or all orders assigned to a certain approver. If you're using DefaultTaskSource you have other options. Where are the tasks going?
I can see how this could be helpful but are you sure it would pass procedure requirements? Letting someone click "approve all" to approve thirty hardware orders they didn't look at could be hazardous...

Zaiah2008's picture

I do agree. I have been able

I do agree. I have been able to get around this by stating that it would not be in our best interests for someone to be able to approve without viewing each individual order for various financial reasons. I did come up with another solution where whenever a task for approval is hit, it stores the link and the supervisor in a table. I then will have another workflow setup where if a user goes in, it reads through this table and displays only those where the supervisor login matches the login of the current user. This will only display links to all of the approval pages and not just approve them automatically. After the request ha been approved it will remove the entry from the table. I thought this worked better (obvious reasons) than allowing an "approve all feature". But if they really wanted it I could always modify this to allow that as well. Thanks.