Has anyone used/created any WFs for transaction approval holiday cover? currently have WF approvals for SOs and POs where we set the next approver and looking to integrate something like below for holiday cover: 1. User that is currently the approver, can select the days/period they are off and select a replacement cover (users don't have access to employee record so maybe a custom record) 2. All unapproved POs + any new ones created during that period will be sent to the new approver (challenge I think is sifting through the unapproved ones and resetting the approver on the first day the cover takes) 3. Once the cover period ends, automatically all unapproved + new ones go back to the original approver Much appreciated..

I tried something exactly like that. A Custom Record with dates and approvers (original and substitute), editable in a Suitelet, that saves the data in the Employee Record. An approval Workflow that checks if the date fields are populated in the Employee when setting Next Approver. A scheduled script that updates transaction approvers based on the custom dates. In the end, we didn't use this approach because of feature creep (they started talking about more than one substitute approver based on amounts, departments, org level and position, etc.) So we just let the Supervisor of the original approver be able to approve on his/her behalf.

Interesting.. thanks for this