Approval by Resource Task

Hi.
is there a way to define an approval workflow by each provisioning Task?
ie:
I have a resource which uses a form to provision users and a child form to assign allowed Areas, but each area I can add has a different approver.
So I want, the main form (provisioning form) to have an approver (the user manager)
and each additional area i add (each task) to trigger an additional approval workflow.
and, if the provisioning task is approved, then the user is created
but if the "Add area Task" is denied, then this will not affect the user creation, only the area addition.
is thah possible?
Thank You.

Now, it is clear.
What exactly you need to do find below:
1. Let us have an example you have three areas say A, B and C.
2. In the request user add anyone form them or all of them.
3. As the create user task get completed successfully we need to tirgger the approval for the requested areas but we dont know which all the areas user selected.
4. We have three task say Is Approval Required for A, Is Approval Required for B and Is Approval Required for C. These task will tirgger simultaneously as the Create User task complete successfully..
5. Let us take task Is Approval Required for A, this task will have a process adatper which will take the areas user has added in child form and check whether the area A is there or not and return Yes or No on the comparison basis.
6. On the Yes response our one more task will trigger say Approval for Area A which has an Task Assignment Adapter to assign the task to the desired approver. Who either Approve the same or Reject the same.
7. On the Approve response our final task called Assign Area A which assign the desried area to the user.
Same thing we need to do for other tasks as well.
It looks very length and time consuming but idealy we need to design three task IS Approval Required, Approval and Assignment rest is same copy paste.
The only afraid i have as the number of areas goes on increasing task will be increasing but as you requirement said we need approval form all the areas business manager.
Let me know if you have any query for the same....
Regards
Alabhya Goel

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