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Approval Flows can now be extended with Custom Fields

11 January 2024
Enhancement
B2BOrdersGraphQL

You can now extend the ApprovalFlow resource with Custom Fields. With this, you can add meta-information to your Approval Flow in case it is required for your business logic.

Changes:

  • [API] Added optional custom field to the ApprovalFlow type.
  • [API] Added Set Custom Type and Set CustomField update actions to Approval Flows.
  • [API] Added approval-flow to CustomFieldReferenceValue enum.
  • [API] Added approval-flow to ResourceTypeId enum.
  • [GraphQL API] Added the following types to the GraphQL schema: SetApprovalFlowCustomField, SetApprovalFlowCustomType.
  • [GraphQL API] Changed the ApprovalFlowUpdateAction type:
    • Input field setCustomField was added to ApprovalFlowUpdateAction type
    • Input field setCustomType was added to ApprovalFlowUpdateAction type
  • [GraphQL API] Changed the ApprovalFlow type:
    • Added the custom field to the ApprovalFlow type.

The following changes were introduced in terms of GraphQL SDL:

extend type ApprovalFlow {
custom: CustomFieldsType
}
extend input ApprovalFlowUpdateAction {
setCustomField: SetApprovalFlowCustomField
setCustomType: SetApprovalFlowCustomType
}
input SetApprovalFlowCustomField {
name: String!
value: String
}
input SetApprovalFlowCustomType {
fields: [CustomFieldInput!]
type: ResourceIdentifierInput
typeKey: String
typeId: String
}