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Permission violation when rejecting expense reports

edited Jun 2, 2025 2:23PM in Ask A Guru 12 comments

Hello!

We recently implemented a "Reject with Note" feature on our expense reports. Our approval process works using a workflow. Currently, when a user rejects an expense, they get the following popup:

Once they press "Reject", a script in the background will grab whatever is in that box and from there, edit the expense report by:

  • Clearing the "Next Approver" field
  • Enabling a custom text field
  • Placing the "Rejection reason" (text from the box) into that custom text field
  • Changing the status of the expense to "Rejected"

This is done by the following code, coming from a Client SuiteScript:

The issue that we are running into is that from a custom role, after they press "Reject" and its supposed to do the record editing, we get the following error in console:

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