Configuring the Multi-Level Approval Workflow
You can configure more than one user or user groups that must approve user registration. You can also specify whether an email notification must be sent to the requests and approver at each level of the registration approval process, the subject, and the content in the email.
To configure the approval workflow
1. In API Portal, click Administration > User registration.
2. Click Approval required.
3. Select the communities to which the newly onboarded users must be assigned to in the Enter default communities for newly onboarded users field.
By default, the users are assigned to the Public Community.
The newly onboarded users are a part of the selected communities.
4. Provide one of the following:
User name of the approver for who must approve the user registration.
Name of the user group who must approve the user registration. Select one of the following options:
Anyone to complete the registration, if any one member of the group approves the registration.
Everyone if the registration must be approved by all members of the selected user group.
If you are providing a user group that is not predefined in API Portal, ensure that the user group is assigned with the webMethods API Portal Viewer privilege. For information on assigning privileges for a user group, see
Assigning Privileges to User Groups.
5. Click to add another level of approver. 6. Perform Steps 4 and 5 till you add the required levels of approvers.
7. Select the notifications that you want to send for each workflow step that you want to use.
For each step, the
Subject and
Content fields contain the content that is used for all notifications sent from
API Portal. Use the default content or change the content, as required. For more information, see
Email Notifications Templates and Tokens.
8. Click Apply.