Lease Auto rejection rule is not getting triggered

Summary:

We have created approval rules in lease accounting based on Assigned to field and once the approver approves it will goes to approval group. this is triggering and working as expected , if user is not mentioning any user details in assigned to field and activate the lease auto rejection is not working and lease is struck in submitted status

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