Integrating Approval Server with an application

To link your application to the approval server and configure the approval process, you must perform the following tasks:

• Creating an approval request form that requesters will use to enter approval requests
• Creating two join forms that join your approval request form with two different approval server supporting forms
• Running the arjoinfix utility to configure the join forms for the approval server
  The following approval server forms are used to create respective joins with the approval request form:
  • AP:Detail
  • AP:Detail-Signature (a join of AP:Detail and AP:Signature created at the Approval Server level)
• Entering the approval request form in AP:Administration
• Defining the processes and rules in AP:Administration
• Adding workflow (at least one filter) to the approval request form that will start the approval process
• Adding notifications to your process

The topics in this section describe procedures for the first three actions, as well as adding notifications:

• Creating an approval request form
• Creating the join forms
• Running the Approval Join Fix utility
• Adding the approval request form to the approval server
• Implementing the approval process
• Creating the processes, rules, and filters
• Creating chained processes

To create processes and rules, see:

• Approval data and forms
• Defining an approval process
• Defining approval rules
• Approver fields