Approver is a requester, can we bypass approval process?

Question

Hello,
My questions is, lets say if I am the manager and I approve all the request raised by my team. In this case I put a request for a resource for one of my team members. Would it be possible in OIM to configure to bypass approval process because I dont want to put a request and then go back approve it.
Thanks
Mahesh

Answer 1

Hi
This is not available out of the box, you will need to write your own java code that will check if the requester is the target user's manager. If it is then return true in your code as the response, on true kick off (tasks to generate on responses tab) a task by name ("No Approval" with tcCompleteTask), if false (then kick off "Approve by Manager task).
you will have 3 tasks in your approval workflow:
1) Is Requester Target User's Manager (required for completion)
2) No Approval (Conditional)
3) Approve by manager (conditional)
the reason for having a task by the name of no approval is to indicate to the oim admins or any auditors that there was no approval required for this request as opposed to just having the task "Is Requester Target User's Mgr" show up in the approval details, because that may not be very intuitive to the admin/auditors or any one looking at it to know whether the approval workflow stalled or has it completed unless one looks at the response code generated by that task in the amdin gui.
Note: If multiple users are selected in the request you will in your code need to iterate through the loop to find out if all the users selected belong to the same mgr or no, if you encounter any one user who does not belong to the mgr, you should exit out of the loop and return "error" or some response code where in you using the api's auto reject the request.