Code to automatically approve task updates

[Mike at Heartland]

Does anyone have code or a utility that will approve task updates without
user intervention? Essentially, we are looking for a solution that
impersonates each user and approves all task update request in a batch
process.

 

[Chris Boyd]

Why not just use rules?

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[Mike at Heartland]

We will gladly use rules if you can tell us how to make them execute when a
task update request is submitted or at least on a scheduled basis. I have
been monitoring post on this topic for 8 months. There seems to be great
confusion among the experts about whether or not rules are truly automatic.
We do not consider rules automatic if a person must click on a button that
says “Run Rules.†I you can instruct us on the setting that allows these
rules to truly function in an automatic function, you will be our hero.

 

[Jack Dahlgren]

In Project 2007 you can make people the approver for their own timesheets...
I think that may work.

 

[Stephen Sanderlin]

I think the QueueReviewTimesheet method in the Timesheet web service
can handle this for you by setting the Action parameter to "Approve".

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[Mike at Heartland]

Any other thoughts Chris regarding my last post. By the way, we are not
using timesheets. These are task updates generated from the My Work pages.