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Hi Team,

How do I set up a workflow in Dynamics BC where the submitter of a payment journal line, can't be the approver as well?

I've already set up the approval user flow accordingly? would this be sufficient.

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OP-28051742-0 25 on at

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HI Community.

You're correct.

I've been testing this workflow multiple times and I've noticed that if the requestor is set up as the workflow admin, then his requests are auto approved if I remember correctly.

My criterions are :

Point (1) if the pay journal line amount is over 50K. it can only be approved person X, if its below 50k , it has to be approved by person Y. so I've created two separate workflows with the following conditions and responses.

Point (2) the same person who creates payment line should not be able to approve the payment.

I'm struggling to figure out how to set up the part 2. the same person who creates payment line should not be able to approve the payment.

How can I set this up?
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Saurav.Dhyani 14,324 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at

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HI,

By default, system will not allow submitter as approver.

You need to make sure that Approver ID is assigned to all users.

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Saurav Dhyani

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YUN ZHU 86,251 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at

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Just adding some information:

https://businesscentralgeek.com/workflows-overview-in-business-central

https://businesscentralgeek.com/how-to-setup-approval-workflows-in-business-central

Hope this helps as well.

Thanks.

ZHU
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Jun Wang 8,051 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at

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unless you set up the requestor same as the approver, the requestor won't be able to approve his own requests.

exception might be the requestor is set up as the workflow admin, then his requests are auto approved if I remember correctly.

Jun Wang
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Valentin Castravet 28,290 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at

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It depends how your workflow is setup. In the Workflows page what is your Approver Type and Approver Limit Type? For example, is it Approver and Direct Approver? Or is it something else?

Valentin Castravet
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