Issue in Approval workflow

Hi,
Currently i'm using IDM 7.0 .
My Scenario: i have created a workflow task with approval requesting for a privilege. The privilege has been assigned an autoProvisioning task to the respective system.
As soon as the requestor submits the request, the privilege entry gets updated for the user in IS and the autoprovisioning task is trigerred and before approval the privilege is assigned to the user in the backend system.
But the case should be, if we have an approval task the provisioning should happen only after approval. but here as the privilege has auto provisioning task defined it provisions to the user though the request is with the approval with no action.
We have planned to implement IDM 7.1 in production. My question is:
1. Even in IDM 7.1 do we have the issue i.e before approval will the privilege will be provisioned to the user in the backend system.
2. If this is the case, please help me how to stop the privilege entry in IS and push it to a staging table when a user submits the request and after approval the entry will be moved to the IS from staging and so that the autoprovisioning task get trigerred.
Please throw some light on this.
Thanks in Advance.
Regards,
Pricy

You have to store the requested assignment at another place which will be transfered by the approval task and which is just removed by an decline task.
One simple option is to work with an auxiliary attribute, e.g. called REQUESTED_PRIVILEGE, which is a reference attribute for privileges. Another option works with the entry type MX_PENDING_VALUE.
Kind regards
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