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Procedure
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On the Pre Approval or Post Approval tab, click the New icon ( ).
2 Enter a name and, optionally, a description.
3 Select an approval requirement.
Option Description
Always Required The approval policy is triggered for every request.
Required based on conditions The approval policy is based on one or more condition clauses.
If you select this option, you must create the conditions. When this approval policy
is applied to eligible services, catalog items, or actions in an entitlement, then the
conditions are evaluated. If the conditions are true, then the request must be
approved by the specified approver method before it is provisioned. If the
conditions are false, then the request is provisioned without requiring an approval.
For example, any requests for a virtual machine with 4 or more CPUs must be
approved by the virtual infrastructure administrator.
The availability of the fields on which to base the conditions is determined by the
selected approval policy type or catalog item.
When you enter a value for a condition, the values are case-sensitive.
To configure more than one condition clause, select the Boolean operation for the
clauses.
4 Select the approvers.
Option Action
Specific Users and Groups Sends the approval request to the selected users.
Determine approvers from the request Sends the approval request to the users based on the defined condition.
Use event subscription Processes the approval request based on defined event subscriptions.
The workflow subscription must be defined in Adminstration > Events >
Subcriptions. The applicable workflow subscriptions are pre-approval and post-
approval.
5 Indicate who must approve the request or action.
Option Description
Anyone can approve Only one of the approvers must approve before the request is processed.
When the item is requested in the service catalog, requests for approval are sent
to all approvers. If one approver approves the request, the request is approved
and the request for approval is removed from the other approvers' inboxes.
All must approve All of the specified approvers must approve before the request is processed.
6 Add properties to an approval form or save the level.
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To add properties to the approval form, click System Properties or Custom Properties.
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To save the level, click OK.
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