Filtering out objects with Pending Approvals

Question

One of our scenarios stopped today just before the Workfront Update Record module because the record was an OPTASK with a status of New+Pending Approval.

This is a very rare condition, so to avoid this happening again I modified the scenario to stop for any object where there is an Approval Process with a status of Pending Approval.

Here is what I did:

Using a Read Record module, I read the awaitingApprovals collection for the object,

And just after that module, I created

--- a variable representing the numeric length of the array (I did it this way because I've had problems with 0 and 1 being recognized as strings and not numeric data types in the past)

--- then a filter for the route to continue only if the variable is less than 1 :

This approach works after testing, but was there a simpler way to do this? Thanks for your feedback.

Sven-iX · Accepted Answer

Hi @mylah_d

The only simplification i can think of is to use the length() function in fusion.

On the filter you could say

length( { the approvals array from the readRecord module } )

Numeric: equals

0 (zero)

-----

Or, use the status value:

Check the module that gets the event: You can filter for status not-equals NEW:A INP:A etc Where ":A" signifies pending approval.

Otherwise in your filter you can say

status

doesn't contains

:A

Kurt_Jones · Answer

Mylah,This seems about as simple as Adobe makes it.  The approvals are designed to stop things from progressing in WF until complete which is likely why there is not a straight-forward path to get around with Fusion either.

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