Report on Approvers listed on Approval Processes

[KellieGardner]

Is it possible to report on the approvers listed in an approval process without it being tied to an object yet? I've searched and tried and haven't been successful yet. Basically, I need to know from setup what teams or named users are listed in the approvers field on an approval processes that have been created. 

[skyehansen]

hi, since an approval process can have many approvers, you would need to consider a collection. If you reference the collections documentation on AEL, you'll find the following in the limitations section:

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/workfront/using/reporting/reports/text-mode/reference-collec...

i.e. you cannot build a collection view of another collection. 

I'm attaching a screenshot below in case it's useful for you to picture this.

An approval process is a collection of approval paths.

Each approval path is a collection of approval stages.

Each approval stage is a collection of step approvers.

So it ends up that what you're asking for is a collection of approvers in a collection of stages in a collection of approval paths. 

Reporting functionality currently doesn't work this way. Hope this helps your understanding.

[KellieGardner]

I figured as such since I’ve been unsuccessful in figuring it out and was familiar with the documentation on collections.  I was kind of hoping someone had an idea on a another creative way to get the information out - Maybe another report type, etc. to piece it all together. 

[skyehansen]

thanks, that's helpful to know.

Have you tried exporting your approvals (as a kickstart) and gleaning what you need off the approvers tab?

(You didn't mention, but if this is for ongoing maintenance, I would then store the information on each process's description field, so you would only have to go through this exercise one time.)