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Item approval flow where more than one employee has to populate certain fields on the item card before final approval

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Hi,

I am working on creating an item approval flow, where before item creation certain fields of an item card has to be populated by people in different departments before finally being approved by an approver in the finance department.

The first person should only be able to populate certain fields of the item card while the other fields remain locked whereafter the person should send the approval request.

The second person should not be able to populate the fields of the previous person, but has to populate some other fields (that were previously locked) and approve.

The third person (finance) should make the final approval.

I´ve been trying to use the Workflow functionality in BC with Workflow User Groups, however I can´t seem to figure out/don´t know if it is possible to restrict specific fields of the item card in an approval process using this functionality. Can this be done standard in BC or e.g. using Power Automate? Or would it require customization in BC and if so how difficult would it be to make?

Kind Regards,

nmn

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    DAnny3211 Profile Picture
    11,407 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    hi

    no you have to ask your parner to do a customisation

    DAniele

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    Ahmed Mohamed Rafik Profile Picture
    3,049 User Group Leader on at

    There is no such thing as approval on certain fields on an item card using the item approval workflow.

    But you can use the security features of Business Central to limit users to use specific fields using the "Record Security" function.

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