# Access Request Auto Approvals and Multi Approvals

**URL:** <https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/t/access-request-auto-approvals-and-multi-approvals/10639>\
**Category:** SHF Discussion and Questions\
**Tags:** identity-security-cloud, access-requests\
**Created:** [April 28, 2023, 6:11am UTC](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/t/access-request-auto-approvals-and-multi-approvals/10639 "2023-04-28T06:11:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mahak14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@Mahak14](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/u/Mahak14)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2023, 6:11am UTC](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/t/access-request-auto-approvals-and-multi-approvals/10639/1 "2023-04-28T06:11:35Z")

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Hi Developer Community,

We have a business requirement as below:

Case 1:  
When Role Approver makes a request for themselves , role approval should go for approval to line manager

Case 2:  
When Role Approver makes a request for someone else , role should be auto approved.

We have tried the attribute “autoApprovalEnabled” as false and vice-versa of above scenario happens. Also in case of “autoApprovalEnabled” as true, auto approval happens for both case.

Let us know if there is a way to achieve above scenario.  
Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![colin\_mckibben](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/sailpoint/discuss/user_avatar/developer.sailpoint.com/colin_mckibben/32/37182_2.png) [@colin\_mckibben](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/u/colin_mckibben)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2023, 3:29pm UTC](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/t/access-request-auto-approvals-and-multi-approvals/10639/2 "2023-05-09T15:29:45Z")

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Hi Mahak,

For Case 1, this should be automatic per this document: [Managing Requests for Roles and Access Profiles - SailPoint Identity Services](https://documentation.sailpoint.com/saas/help/requests/config_ap_roles.html#preventing-self-approval). Are you seeing different behavior?

For Case 2, I’m not aware of any out of the box configuration that will do this. You can [submit an idea](https://ideas.sailpoint.com) for our product team to implement such a feature. Or, you can look into creating some automation that will handle this for you. For example, you could write a program or workflow that periodically checks [pending access requests](https://developer.sailpoint.com/idn/api/v3/list-pending-approvals) for any items that match your criteria and then use the [approve access request endpoint](https://developer.sailpoint.com/idn/api/v3/approve-access-request) to automatically approve it.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/sailpoint/original/2X/f/f2136700ed5e3703e0b85e02f6be799dacca7735.png) [@system](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 2:24pm UTC](https://developer.sailpoint.com/discuss/t/access-request-auto-approvals-and-multi-approvals/10639/3 "2023-07-19T14:24:54Z")

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