Quick Tip: How to correctly frame an approval rule based on an attribute that can be Null

Summary

How to frame an approval rule based on an attribute that can be Null

Content

I am posting this article as a generic tip to framing approval rules for a very specific type of attribute. This should hopefully add another important tip to the repertoire of approvals related articles that we periodically publish on this portal.

Issue:

The customer logged a bug suggesting the following:

Project Billable Flag is not working in requisition approvals. In other words, the customer has an approval rule defined that uses said attribute. however the rule is not fired when the requisition that ought to respect this rule is submitted for approval