One of the most recent search terms that I’ve seen for my blog here was “AME dynamic approval group example” – so in this post, I’m going to go through the steps required to create a dynamic approval group and provide an example.  This example continues on from part four, since we will be replacing the static approval group with a simple dynamic one.

Using the “Approvals Management Business Analyst” responsibility, in the “Approval Process Setup” panel on the right hand side of the dashboard, choose the “iRecruitment Vacancy Approval” transaction type again:

Click on the “Approver Groups” link, and we will modify the existing group from static to dynamic.  Click on the “Update” icon for the Approver Group we created earlier, and then change the usage type from Static to Dynamic.  As soon as the change is made, you will be shown a warning, indicating that the static approvers will be removed from the group:

Since we are going to be redefining the group completely, this is fine, so click on the “Yes” button and you will be returned to the group definition with no static approvers shown.

As a simple example, my approver group requires approval from two people – the user MATT and the HR person Tim Cleary.  The SQL code required to retrieve the two records in the same query is

SELECT 'user_id:'||user_id
FROM   fnd_user
WHERE  user_name = 'MATT'
UNION ALL
SELECT 'person_id:'||person_id
FROM   per_all_people_f  papf
WHERE  papf.full_name = 'Cleary, Mr. Timothy'

In the SQL above, we need to tell AME exactly what kind of approver we are retrieving – by prefixing the user record with “user_id:” and prefixing the person record with “person_id:”, AME then knows where the records are being retrieved from.  Enter the SQL into the Query box, and then hit the Apply button. You can also use the Validate button, which checks that the query is structurally sound, but does not seem to check much more than that (for example, if you prefix the user record with “usssssser_id:”, it is still classed as a valid query).

That’s all there is to it – if we now go and create a new vacancy (using the same BJOSPEH user that we did in the last post), when we review the vacancy, we see that AME has added the two approvers to the bottom of the approval list:

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