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Approval Path Explorer

About this Page

The Approval Path Explorer is a specialized auditing and review tool within the Revyz Config Explorer. It provides a read-only, point-in-time view of your Approval Path configurations. This interface allows administrators to navigate through historical snapshots of their approval workflows, ensuring that you can verify exactly how your approval logic was structured at any specific date and time in the past.

This feature is applicable to

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What is the Use Case?

The primary goal of the Approval Path Explorer is to provide transparency and accountability for your Jira approval workflows. Key use cases include:

  • Audit Compliance: Auditors often require proof of configuration at a specific time. You can use this tool to show exactly what conditions and definitions were active during a previous period.

  • Change Comparison: If an approval workflow is behaving unexpectedly, you can compare the current "Live" state against a known stable historical snapshot to identify what changed.

  • Configuration Recovery Reference: While this tool provides a configuration backup (not a data/issue backup), it serves as a vital reference point. If a complex approval condition is accidentally deleted or modified in your live environment, you can look up the exact expression or logic here to recreate it.

  • Impact Analysis: Review how changes to global or space-specific conditions might have affected your team's workflow history.

Note: The Approval Path Explorer currently focuses on Configuration Backup. It does not store Data Backups.

How to enable settings?

Before using the explorer, make sure you enable the setting Data Backups for Approval Path for Jira.

To know how to enable this setting, visit: General Settings.

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Enable Approval Path API Token

How to use the Approval Path Explorer?

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Currently Available Features

Right now, the explorer provides detailed insights into:

  • Definitions: The foundational setup of your approval paths.

  • Conditions: The specific logic (Expressions) used to evaluate whether an approval is required, which spaces they belong to, and the "Evaluate as" context (e.g., User who creates approval or Assignee).

Features

  1. Access: Navigate to the Config Explorer from the Revyz Command Center and select the Approval Path Explorer card.

  2. Select Snapshot: Use the configuration toggle (top right) to select the specific historical date and time you wish to view. The page header will display the "READ-ONLY configuration state as of [Date/Time]".

  3. Navigate Sections: Use the left-hand sidebar to switch between different configuration types.

    • Definitions: View the high-level approval path structures and settings.

    • Conditions: (Currently available) Browse the list of logic-based rules that trigger approvals.

  4. Filter and Search: Use the column headers (Name, Expression, Space, Status) to filter the list. This is particularly useful for finding specific conditions across large environments.

  5. View Details: Click on individual entries to see the full "Expression" or logic being applied (e.g., specific JQL, user account IDs, or issue type requirements).

Limitations

  • Team Managed Spaces: Team managed spaces will be included, but fields, issue types and status will not be visible, only their Ids will be shown.

  • Condition Status The interface currently displays Enabled conditions. Archived status data is not captured in the current backup scope.

  • Audit Details To ensure a streamlined view, the Audit Details section is hidden. This section is slated for visibility once the platform expands from ID-only retrieval to full history logs.