How to Recall the approval process using Salesforce Apex?

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How to Recall the approval process using Salesforce Apex?

Posted by rahul Billaka on April 12, 2018 at 1:21 PM

When a user submits a process to approve or recall, only the submitter and system admin can recall it. Is there a way that the Project Manager or any other person can recall it.
Note: This is a standard functionality by Salesforce to not allow other users to recall except submitted and sysadmin when you are using standard component apex not a custom.

Reference: https://developer.salesforce.com/forums/?id=906F0000000kGCyIAM

Any suggestions are really helpful.

Manpreet replied 8 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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Manpreet

Member
April 16, 2018 at 6:27 AM

Hi Rahul,

I know two workarounds but they're both terrible:

1 - Just reject the record and do it again.

2 - Give the ModifyAll permission for that object. This is generally a terrible idea as it shatters security models by giving admin-like powers not just to recall and reassign, but also approve your own changes.

I'm in full support of introducing this feature!

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