Bypass status on the Journal Approval Process and No Approvals Required

Any feedback is welcome, we are in PT 8.60/PUM 47

We have observed that when a journal is routed to multiple approvers, and one of the approvers completes the approval action, the system updates the approval status to "Approved" for that approver and "Bypass" for the remaining approvers.

However, if an approver has access to both the Journal Approval and Journal Post components, the system bypasses the workflow approval process entirely. In this case, the Approval History is blank and Approvals Status displays "No approvals required" instead of showing a "Bypass" status along with the corresponding approver details.

For instance, our testing confirms that journals created using a CI user must also be processed (submitted for approval) using the same CI user. If a different user ID—one with access to the