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Getting the approval status of a Payment Journal Line

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Hi community! I was wondering if there was a way to get the approval status of a payment journal line.

I can see there is a "Pending Approval" field in the Gen. Journal Line table but its value is still false in the inspector even though an approval has been requested for this journal line.

Update (Oct 11): I want to get the approval status of the journal line, NOT the journal batch.

I notice there is a private variable in the Payment Journal Page(256) called GenJnlLineApprovalStatus and I wonder if there is any way to get the value of this variable.

Please help, thanks!

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Sacha E 246 on at

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You obviously don't have this view?

On both our General Journal and Payment Journals we can see the Approval Status on top next to the batch name. We do use workflows for our approvals and have a Workflow User Group for our Journal Approvals.

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kayc529 53 on at

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Some more info about what I am trying to do: I have an action that should only be triggered if the journal line has been approved, so I was hoping to get a boolean value or some indicator.

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Hi @IT-04102138-0,

It seems the workflow has been configured but the General Journal Line is not yet sent for Approval.

Vendor No. is blank in your screenshot.

If you fill the required fields and send it for approval it will update the Approval Status to "Pending Approval"

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Andy Wingate 326 on at

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Hiya,

For line approval you should check the field called "Approval Status". The pending approval field doesn't appear to be used for either line approval or batch approval. To get the view shown by Sache you need to be using 'Batch approval' which is a different workflow template.

You might want to check your workflow also, its possible the approval didn't remove the restriction. you can always test a default one.

Does that help at all?

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Andy

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Valentin Castravet 31,340 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hope this helps as well - More control over general journal approvals | Microsoft Learn

Valentin Castravet
Work: Zander ERP Services
Blog: Dynamics 365 Business Central Insights
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/valentin-c-0500a247/

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Vahid Ghafarpour 12,090 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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kayc529 53 on at

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I have set up the workflow correctly (notification received by the approver) but the "Pending Approval" field is still false

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YUN ZHU 95,331 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi, hope the following helps.

Business Central 2023 wave 2 (BC23): More control over general journal approvals (Approval Status)

https://yzhums.com/42902/

Thanks.

ZHU

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kayc529 53 on at

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@YUN ZHU

Is there a way to get the values of these variables?

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Gerardo Rentería Ga... 25,157 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi

I hope this can help you and give you some hints

Protected Variables (waldo.be)

Protected variables - Business Central | Microsoft Learn

Dynamics 365 Business Central: Can we access global variables from page extensions or table extensions? Yes, But…… | Dynamics 365 Lab (yzhums.com)

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GR

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