[Status: Backburner ⏳] Allow "and/or" approver selection - Multiple approvers when only one is needed
I'd like to be able to add multiple optional approvers to a task/project without requiring that all of them approve the task/project for it to continue. This would be useful for example when a manager is out of office and their designated backup can cover for them.
Some tasks just need someone to approve, and it's not critical that it's a specific person.
Approval could even be assigned to a group of managers, when only one of them is needed.
Adding this "and/or" functionality would preserve the current approach when multiple approvals are mos appropriate, while also allowing flexibility in the approvals process.
Thanks for your consideration!
This would be super helpful for us as well. We have an approval process where the final approval could come from either of 2 team members. It doesn't matter which one approves, we just need approval from 1. Right now we are having to assign them both and then wait for both approvals.
I would love to have this. Also the ability to combine approvers and guest reviewers in one approval process.
Hi Oliver Reams, thank you for sharing this suggestion! And thank you Ashley Fischer and Russell Sprague for supporting it 🙂 I have passed your comments to our Product Development Team.
I'll keep you informed if we receive any updates regarding this idea 👍
It would be very uself indeed, We have Engineering Change that sometimes required the approval of one person only but that is different for each case.
I am also surprise that Wrike didn't make it possible for a group of users
Any updates on this ?
Hi Hugo Cournee, welcome to the Community! Thank you for adding your support to this idea. We don't have updates to share about this suggestion at the moment, but are passing your feedback on to our Product Team 👍
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There are several approval changes requested in the Product Feedback space, please take a look at the following and upvote all of them (they're all very similar requests), that way we'll hit the 60 upvotes faster, and Wrike will take a look at them :)
All and/or approvals: https://help.wrike.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/16519975424919-Allow-and-or-approver-selection-Multiple-approvers-when-only-one-is-needed
Levels of approvals: https://help.wrike.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360023723393-Levels-of-Approval
Dynamic assignments of approvals: https://help.wrike.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/16844159615383-Dynamic-Approvers-Auto-assigned-in-Workflow
Approval sequences: https://help.wrike.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/4404803413271-Approval-Sequences
1 of many approval process: https://help.wrike.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/14608812217111-configure-request-approvals-only-one-approval-needed
Automation - adding secondary approver: https://help.wrike.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/21250558378007-Automation-Rule-Enhancement-Secondary-Approver-Added-Following-Initial-Approval?page=1#community_comment_21293730376087
something similar would be great for my org as well.
In our case, we would like the ability for approval to be reached once a majority of the approvers approve. So if 3/5 have approved, the request is now approved. If only 2/5 approve, it gets rejected.
Thank you for sharing your use case, Garren McKelvey, I've passed your comment on to our Product Team 👍
Another upvote for a "1 out of many" approval system please. You could even have the notion of approval groups for this. And then set the 'pass count' for that group. So approval would go to QA for example, and anyone in that group could approve - and it would require a minimum level to be considered fully approved.
Hi Mike Mountain, welcome to the Community! Thank you for adding your vote to this suggestion 👍
We'll keep you updated if there are any changes implemented!
I would love to see something like this too. I would like to change or add approvers when moving a task to a new folder.
Hi Jesse Hicks, welcome to Wrike Community 👋Thank you for reaching out and supporting this idea! I'll now share your feedback with the responsible Product team.
Be sure to upvote the original post above as votes show our team the amount of interest for different suggestions here. Here's a post that explains about voting and statuses in the Product Feedback forum, and let me know if you need help with anything 🙋
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I also would like the ability to only need one approver to approve an approval. I add multiple approvers to an approval because they all should be aware and have authority to approve the task. The fact that all of them need to approve it in order for the task to be considered approved slows down the whole process. If I could specify only 1 out the 2 approvers is needed that would speed up our workflow.
I would also find this extremely helpful. Especially when the primary approver is on PTO, it would allow us to have secondary approvers available to keep projects moving, especially for the intake of new projects!
Yes, I too am looking for this. In our intake we have 2 people that can review tasks, and either can approve. I too find the AND limiting. One thought I had is that assigning a group as an approver then you could have any 1 person in that group be an approver.
We need this to not bog down our workflows. (Removing extra approves is a janky workaround)
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