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Hi all, weird question. We want to create a workflow to change all employee's purchase approver to be anyone in the Accounting team, vs. a specific accounting person. Any guesstimate on how long creating a workflow like that would take?

Depends on your workflow - I'm guessing it'd probably be easier to build a parallel workflow from the ground up than to modify your existing one. - in which case, could be just a few hours, or could be a week of work.

I mean, it could be as easy as changing when the approve button shows up - in which case almost no time is necessary

Unfortunately, without knowing the structure of it - it is *very* hard to give you an even remotely accurate idea.

Thanks <@UER9Q3SGM>. We don't have any workflows in place yet and are following the native approval route. We're working with ACS (yes, mistake in itself) and they quoted 8 hours. We've had multiple issues before with their timing so I was second guessing how complicated workflows might be for their developers. Example: they quoted us 9 hours to add a repeating header to an existing custom purchase order PDF. I figured it out myself in less than 45 minutes (and I don't know HTML at all)

8 hours could be a tad high if all you want to do is a role based approval.

I'd add a custom field to the role for indicating that it was allowed to do approvals - then use that as the criteria for the button to show up - other than that it's a pretty standard 2 state workflow - I'd probably think 4-8 should be plenty.

remember, that 8 hours probably includes also testing it - and walking you through the tests as well.

The workflow itself isn't that complicated if you know what you're doing. However - if you don't know it - it could take you much longer to figure it out.

cool. Appreciate the input. Makes me feel a little better about their quote.

Maybe I'll have them table that particular project and use this as an excuse to start learning workflows myself since it seems like a basic flow