Using workflows with employee hierarchies in Dynamics 365 F&O

On a recent project my customer wanted to use workflows to approve project quotes. The requirement was to have different approvers for different quotation dollar amounts. Further these approvers would change based on the person submitting the quotation.
How we solved this requirement was to implement an employee hierarchy in Dynamics 365 and use that employee hierarchy with a workflow. In this example I show how to use the hierarchy with a project quotation but this same concept would work with any type of workflow in Dynamics 365.
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[@bilgin2010]

Great Video Scott. Loved your presentation.

[@MatthewAlgieTimOR]

Hi Scott, I wanted to reinforce what Justin has said - it is great to see you back making these videos they are massively helpful. Thank you! Funnily enough I had a similar requirement on a recent project except instead of going to a job role, our requirement was for the workflow item (Purchase requisition in our case) to go to the manager of the requestor, and then to a few different teams of people. The manager part was fine as we used the hierarchy you showed, but for the workflow to end up with a team we decided to assign the users within the teams to User groups (System administration > Users > User groups). We could then route the workflow item, based on value, to the appropriate teams by using the Participant option within the workflow assignment, then selecting User group participants in the Type of participant field. Thought I would share in case it is helpful for any of your viewers as this solution is working well so far our side. Thanks again Scott!

[@us3rnam3ch3cks0ut]

Great to see you making videos again, Scott. Thanks for posting these.

[@santoshsurti30]

I guess you can use organisations signing limit policies and the same you can compare in workflow like employee limits >= PO Balance. You are already linking employee HR records with position. This way we do not have to create multiple approval limits based on approval amount.

[@Scott-Gaines]

Thanks... I looked at signing limits and wasn't able to get it to work correctly. It was probably something I was doing wrong but for whatever reason it wasn't working as I would expect it to. It's been a couple of months so I don't remember the exact issue, but this method ended up being a cleaner implementation.

[@jesuisrobert808]

In some companies, we do have a hierarchy that is not consistent across departments. So you set up this hierarchy but what if some departments have not filled in a position, let's say a Manager reports to VP but usually we have Director in between but in other departments you have that consistent hierarchy. Do you have a workflow suggestion? If in workflow, I think you'd have to be more exact in your title i.e. Project of Mgr of Accounting for instance, not just Project Manager.