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Submitting for approval to multiple people.

Last post 08-31-2010 10:32 AM by Qazi Anis. 3 replies.
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  • 08-31-2010 08:17 AM

    Submitting for approval to multiple people.

    Hi everyone,
    I'm working on a project that has the potential to require multiple approvals, at the form creators descretion.  Right now I'm using a repeating field to enter in the email addresses of the approvers, a double eval to send out the emails, and a sum of how many approvers there are which is compared to a sum of how many approvers approved to determine if the project is approved.  I'm wondering if there is a way to track who approved the document so I don't have the same person approving multiple times.  Thanks!

  • 08-31-2010 09:19 AM In reply to

    Re: Submitting for approval to multiple people.

    well i will suggest you to create a workflow sort of thing so that the form moves from one approver to another and you can keep track of the approvals

    Qazi Anis
    Technical Architect
    Bitwise Inc
  • 08-31-2010 09:26 AM In reply to

    Re: Submitting for approval to multiple people.

    I was thinking about that, but one of the requirements was having no specific order to the approvers.  I probably should have mentioned that in my original post.  Thanks though!  If nothing else comes up I may return to my manager and make that suggestion.

  • 08-31-2010 10:32 AM In reply to

    Re: Submitting for approval to multiple people.

    well for this a simple solution would be to use a secondary data connection, when the form is created create an entry in a list/table to set the value of four fields;

    pending approval: all email ids

    approvers: blank

    disapprovers: blank

    all_ids: all email ids

    at form load check if the persons email id is in the pending approval field, if so allow him access, if not change the view to readonly.

    Qazi Anis
    Technical Architect
    Bitwise Inc
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