Configuring approvals for creating an application

You must configure the approval settings to enforce approval for creating an application in webMethods API Gateway.

1. Open the menu options and select Administration.
2. Select General > Approval configuration > Create application.
3. Set the Enable toggle button to the on position to enable the approval configuration to take effect.
4. Select the access profile of approvers from the Approvers list.
5. Select anyone from the approved by list. This option implies that any one user of the selected team can approve or reject the requests. The requester need not wait for the approval of each approver in the approvers group.
   Note: If a user is associated with the selected team, then the user can approve or reject a pending request even if the user is not associated with the approvers group.
6. Select the Team approvers option to allow the team approvers to approve the pending requests of applications that the team is associated with. You can specify the users and user groups (Team approvers) in the approvers section when creating or editing the team details. The Team Approvers overs list also includes the users and user groups specified in the Team administrators section, if the Include team administrators as approvers option is selected.
7. Select Disable auto-approval of the requester to specify that applications cannot be automatically approved when they are created by users who have the privilege to approve application creation requests. If you do not select this option, then the applications created by users who have the required privileges are automatically approved.
8. Select Configure approval initiate request mail template to be sent to approver . This selection is used to configure the email template to be sent to the approver, for approving the request of creating an application.
9. Provide the following information in the Configure approvalconfigure approval initiate request mail template to be sent to the approver section:

   Field	Description
   Send notification	To send an email notification to the approver to approve the request for creating an application.
   Subject	The subject line of the email to be sent.
   Content	By default, the template appears. You can customize the email content. The @ character acts as a place holder and the values are automatically generated by the system. For example, Hello@approver.name appears as hello Joe in the email sent, where Joe is the approvers login ID. For more information about supported variables see, Email templates variable.

   Note: The email notifications are sent to the local webMethods API Gateway users.
10. Select Configure request approved mail template to be sent to requester. This option is to configure the email template to be sent to the requester to notify that the request for creating an application is approved.
11. Provide the following information in the Configure request approved mail template to be sent to the requester section.

    Field	Description
    Send notification	To send an email notification to the requester that the request for creating an application is approved by the approver.
    Subject	The subject line of the email to be sent.
    Content	By default, the template appears. You can customize the email content. The @ character acts as a place holder and the values are automatically generated by the system. For example, approval of @event.type appears as approval Create Applicationof in the email sent, where Create Application is the event.type. For more information on supported variables see, Email templates variable.

12. Select Configure rejection mail template to be sent to requester. This selection is to configure the email template to be sent to the requester to notify that the request for creating an application is rejected.
13. Provide the information after this in the configure rejection mail template to be sent to the requester section:

    Field	Description
    Send notification	This field is used to send an email notification to the requester that the approver rejected the request for creating an application.
    Subject	The subject line of the email to be sent.
    Content	By default, the template appears. You can customize the email content. The @ character acts as a place holder and the system automatically generates values. For example, approval of @event.type appears as approval of create application in the email sent, where create application is the event.type. For more information on supported variables see, Email templates variable.

14. Click Save.
    Click Cancel to revert to the last saved changes or to abandon all the changes if the values are not saved.