Alternative Absence Flow on Overbooking Absence

Summary

Alternative Absence Flow on Overbooking Absence

Content

In context with Absence Management Approval Workflow processes and configurations many times one way have a requirement where-in certain absence transactions needs to follow an alternative approval routing based on a Descriptive Flex-Field (DFF) enabled on the Absence Recording page. In this case the business requirement is such that whenever a specific Absence Booking Transaction makes the Absence Leave Balance as “Negative” then an alternative approval routing should be followed. Unfortunately, this cannot be achieved as the DFF attributes are not available while defining approval rules on the Absence Approval workflow.But having said so one can still have a workaround