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. The contextId is ID of the record to submit for approval..

Example usage

1curl https://MyDomainName.my.salesforce.com/services/data/v66.0/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