You cannot approve your own request

Nobody may decide their own request in Flexshop. This holds for every role, including Application Administrators, in both apps.

What you see

• Your own request never appears under Approvals in the portal.
• In the console the decision drawer is read-only: "You cannot decide your own request." Your own request has no tick box in the queue.

When you are the only possible approver

Flexshop never plans a step that only the requester could take. If that would happen, the request is refused when you try to send it:

• "Nobody else can approve this request yet: the only approver found for the Manager step is you, and nobody may approve their own request." You are your own group's approver, or the fallback approver.
• "Nobody else can approve this request yet: you are the only person who holds the {role} role it needs, and nobody may approve their own request."

The fix is always to add a second person: another approver on the budget group, a different fallback approver, or a second holder of the role. An administrator can check this in advance with Try it, which warns "Only the requester holds {role}, …" or "The only Manager found for this request is the requester, …". See Test your rules with Try it.