Approve a Record

Use the Process Approvals resource to approve a record or a collection of records. Each call takes an array of requests. The current user must be an assigned approver.

Example usage

1curl https://yourInstance.salesforce.com/services/data/v30.0/process/approvals/ -H "Authorization: Bearer token" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d @approve.json"

Example request body approve.json file

1{
2  "requests" : [{
3    "actionType" : "Approve",
4    "contextId" : "04iD0000000Cw6SIAS",
5    "nextApproverIds" : ["005D00000015rY9"],
6    "comments" : "this record is approved"}]
7}

Example JSON response body

1[ { 
2  "actorIds" : null,
3  "entityId" : "001D000000I8mImIAJ",
4  "errors" : null,
5  "instanceId" : "04gD0000000CvmAIAS",
6  "instanceStatus" : "Approved",
7  "newWorkitemIds" : [ ],
8  "success" : true 
9} ]

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Approve a Record