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Business Units now support Approval Rules inheritance
28 June 2024
Composable Commerce
HTTP API
Enhancement
B2BOrdersGraphQL
Business Units can now inherit Approval Rules from parent units higher up in the hierarchy. With Approval Rules inheritance, Business Units of type Division automatically inherit the rules of parent units. This can be helpful in situations where a Company has defined a set of Approval Rules that should also be applied to all associated Divisions. For each Division, you can choose the inheritance behavior and explicitly define which rules should apply. To modify the inheritance behavior, use the Change Approval Rule Mode update action.

Changes:

  • [API] Added approvalRuleMode field to BusinessUnit, BusinessUnitDraft, Company, Division, and DivisionDraft.
  • [API] Added BusinessUnitApprovalRuleMode type to Business Units.
  • [API] Added Change Approval Rule Mode update action to Business Units.
  • [API] Added BusinessUnitApprovalRuleModeChangedMessage Message.
  • [GraphQL API] Added the following types to the GraphQL schema: BusinessUnitApprovalRuleMode, BusinessUnitApprovalRuleModeChanged, ChangeBusinessUnitApprovalRuleMode.
  • [GraphQL API] Changed the BusinessUnitDraft type:
    • Input field approvalRuleMode was added to BusinessUnitDraft type
  • [GraphQL API] Changed the BusinessUnit type:
    • Added the approvalRuleMode field to the BusinessUnit type.
  • [GraphQL API] Changed the BusinessUnitUpdateAction type:
    • Input field changeApprovalRuleMode was added to BusinessUnitUpdateAction type

The following changes were introduced in terms of GraphQL SDL:

extend type BusinessUnit {
  approvalRuleMode: BusinessUnitApprovalRuleMode!
}

extend input BusinessUnitDraft {
  approvalRuleMode: BusinessUnitApprovalRuleMode
}

extend input BusinessUnitUpdateAction {
  changeApprovalRuleMode: ChangeBusinessUnitApprovalRuleMode
}

enum BusinessUnitApprovalRuleMode {
  Explicit
  ExplicitAndFromParent
}

type BusinessUnitApprovalRuleModeChanged implements MessagePayload {
  approvalRuleMode: BusinessUnitApprovalRuleMode!
  oldApprovalRuleMode: BusinessUnitApprovalRuleMode
  type: String!
}

input ChangeBusinessUnitApprovalRuleMode {
  approvalRuleMode: BusinessUnitApprovalRuleMode!
}