Create an approval policy

Create an approval policy that will apply approval steps to payables in your app. It will only apply to policies that match the approval_conditions and are in state submitted_for_approval. Policies that already have approval steps will not be overwritten.

POST /v2/accounts-payable/approval-policies

Create an approval policy

cURL

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.dots.dev/api/v2/accounts-payable/approval-policies \
  --header 'Authorization: Basic <encoded-value>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "payable_conditions": [
    {}
  ],
  "approval_conditions": [
    {
      "approver_list": [
        123
      ],
      "num_approvals_required": 2
    }
  ],
  "description": "<string>"
}
'

import requests

url = "https://api.dots.dev/api/v2/accounts-payable/approval-policies"

payload = {
    "payable_conditions": [{}],
    "approval_conditions": [
        {
            "approver_list": [123],
            "num_approvals_required": 2
        }
    ],
    "description": "<string>"
}
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Basic <encoded-value>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Basic <encoded-value>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({
    payable_conditions: [{}],
    approval_conditions: [{approver_list: [123], num_approvals_required: 2}],
    description: '<string>'
  })
};

fetch('https://api.dots.dev/api/v2/accounts-payable/approval-policies', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.dots.dev/api/v2/accounts-payable/approval-policies",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'payable_conditions' => [
        [
                
        ]
    ],
    'approval_conditions' => [
        [
                'approver_list' => [
                                123
                ],
                'num_approvals_required' => 2
        ]
    ],
    'description' => '<string>'
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Authorization: Basic <encoded-value>",
    "Content-Type: application/json"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.dots.dev/api/v2/accounts-payable/approval-policies"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"payable_conditions\": [\n    {}\n  ],\n  \"approval_conditions\": [\n    {\n      \"approver_list\": [\n        123\n      ],\n      \"num_approvals_required\": 2\n    }\n  ],\n  \"description\": \"<string>\"\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Basic <encoded-value>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.dots.dev/api/v2/accounts-payable/approval-policies")
  .header("Authorization", "Basic <encoded-value>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"payable_conditions\": [\n    {}\n  ],\n  \"approval_conditions\": [\n    {\n      \"approver_list\": [\n        123\n      ],\n      \"num_approvals_required\": 2\n    }\n  ],\n  \"description\": \"<string>\"\n}")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.dots.dev/api/v2/accounts-payable/approval-policies")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Basic <encoded-value>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"payable_conditions\": [\n    {}\n  ],\n  \"approval_conditions\": [\n    {\n      \"approver_list\": [\n        123\n      ],\n      \"num_approvals_required\": 2\n    }\n  ],\n  \"description\": \"<string>\"\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

201

{
  "active": true,
  "api_app_id": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a",
  "approval_conditions": [
    {
      "approver_list": [
        {
          "id": 123,
          "name": "<string>"
        }
      ],
      "num_approvals_required": 123
    }
  ],
  "payable_conditions": [
    {
      "comparator": "<string>",
      "type": "<unknown>",
      "value": 123
    }
  ],
  "created": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
  "description": "<string>",
  "id": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a",
  "priority": 123
}

Authorizations

Authorization · string · header · required

Basic authentication header of the form Basic <encoded-value>, where <encoded-value> is the base64-encoded string username:password.

Body

application/json

payable_conditions · object[] · required

Minimum array length: 1

Option 1

Option 2

Show child attributes

approval_conditions · object[] · required

Minimum array length: 1

Show child attributes

description · string

Response

201 - application/json

Created

active · boolean

api_app_id · string<uuid>

approval_conditions · object[]

Show child attributes

payable_conditions · object[]

Show child attributes

created · string<date-time>

description · string | null

id · string<uuid>

priority · integer