Bypass the Approval Chain

You can bypass the approval chain for a specified action on approval type human task activities. For example, if you set the policy to be All Assignees in Sequence and the second of four approvers rejects the task, you can use this feature to bypass the remaining two approvers.

To bypass the approval chain:

1. Select the approval human task activity, and open its Properties pane.
2. In the Properties pane, scroll to the Assignees section.
3. Select the Skip Approval check box to activate the drop-down menu.
4. Select the action that you want to skip approval on.

   If you add or remove an action in the Action field, the drop-down menu for skipping approvals automatically updates to reflect the addition or deletion. See Define an Approval Pattern.