Approval Rule getting in the way

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Hi Team. 
 I have an issue with a workflow. The workflow Run AS accounts for the user who started the workflow. The workflow starts when a BOOLEAN VA is selected. 
 As you can see in the screenshot, there is an approval rule. If approved, it add adds the workflow target to a security group. Then, it sets an attribute on the workflow target and the values of the account's email address that initiated the change. Finally, it runs a Powershell script. 
 If I disable the Approval rule, everything runs as expected. When I enable the approval rule, the step where it sets an attribute value to the email address of the person who initiated the start of the workflow is blank. I assume the Approval rule is getting in the way or taking over the following steps as the service account.? 
 
 Any suggestions?

Stu.Pollock · Accepted Answer

Hi craig mcfarlane 
 I was able to re-create the issue with something similar in my lab, I'd suggest you raise an SR. 
 
 One options might be to add a "Save Object Properties" activity step (that I named "Initiator") as below 
 
 Then within your update activity step, get the value from the "Saved Object Properties" 
 
 A seconds option would start as the same as option one, by adding the "Save object properties" activity step, but if you don't need the email address set against the user account for any other reason than from your script, you could just query the Saved object properties from your script 
 IE: 
 $InitiatorEmailAddress = $workflow.SavedObjectProperties("Initiator").get("mail")

Approval Rule getting in the way

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