Override Approval Work Item Action

This action also validates if a user has required permissions to override an approval work item and update its status. Keep these considerations in mind when you use this invocable action.

• The user must have the Approval Admin user permission.
• This action enables approval admins to interject the approval decision for any assignee.
• The status of the approval work item must be in Assigned status.

This action is available in API version 62.0 and later.

Supported REST HTTP Methods

URI

/services/data/v64.0/actions/standard/overrideApprovalWorkItem

Formats

JSON, XML

HTTP Methods

POST

Authentication

Authorization: Bearertoken

Inputs

Outputs

None.

Example

POST

Here's a sample request for the Override Approval Work Item action.

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "approvalWorkItemId": "9jRxx00000001lhEAA",
      "approvalDecision": "Reject",
      "comments": "Needs to be reviewed."
    }
  ]
}

Here's a sample response for the Override Approval Work Item action.

{
  "actionName": "overrideApprovalWorkItem",
  "errors": null,
  "invocationId": null,
  "isSuccess": true,
  "outcome": null,
  "outputValues": null,
  "sortOrder": -1,
  "version": 1
}