How to add two levels of booking approval.

[rsequiera]

Hi Nick,

I am in the process of customizing the application for two levels of approvals eg: first level is at dept manager level and the next is at general manager level. could you please help me with this.

Thanks,

[Nick]

It sounds like you may need to introduce the concept of a reservation state or stage.  The flow might be from requested, approved - level 1, reserved/confirmed.

The code wouldn't be too much different than what is there for the current approval process.  You'll need to set up users in those roles, then promote the reservation through each stage.  It's a pretty good amount of code, but if you're comfortable with PHP it shouldn't be too bad.

[rsequiera]

Thanks Nick,

Do you mean i need to have one more table to store the state/stage of every reservation? and how to go about the changes to have additional roles to handle two level of approval. one more thing is that if have group haed as the first level approver and the main admin as the second level approve will the changes be still the same?

[Nick]

Either another table or a column on the existing reservation table.

The changes will be pretty much the same regardless of how many roles you have.  You would just need the ability to choose which role has which approval privileges.

[wholloway2]

OP, were you successful in implementing the levels of approval?