Approval form

[becky]

I am trying to have the Approve button act the same way as the Deny button. When selecting Deny, a form comes up (approval.comments.g and it posts back to the approval.g form) and you can enter in comments. I would like the same action to happen when selecting Approve. Can anyone explain how this works?

Also, on the approval.g form the fields are not marked as read-only in forms designer but when on the form you are not able to enter anything into the fields. Why?

[tommy]

On the Object cm3r in document engine on the approval tab there is an option to enable comments on all approvals. Enable that.

[becky]

Checking this in the Object works but we don't want the comments when a record is approved to be mandatory, we just want the option to enter comments. When deny and retract is selected we do want the comments to be mandatory(which is currently working).
How can we make the approval comments not mandatory?

[tommy]

Recently I made the same for a customer.

In the approval process I manipulate the field in the environment variable that controls approval comments. See on the object what the environment varible is then set the field approval.comment to true or false according to your requirements. (check the exact field name on the object.)

[becky]

Can you give me an example please or explain where I find the environment variable? I am on the Object (cm3r) but am not able to locate the environment variable.

[tommy]

On the Object, on the first notetab. There is a field called Profile Variable. In a default system it has the value $G.cm3r.environment.

So in the approval process set approval.comments in $G.cm3r.environment=true or false depending on your requirements.

[AFR]

Neat! Thanks Tommy!