How can i prevent in an Approval-Workflow, that the approver is the same person as the reporter

[Stark Jürgen]

We have the Scriptrunner; is ist possible with Automations or Scriptrunner?

[Hans Polder _Devoteam_]

Hi Stark,

To verify: Are you using Jira Service Management? If so, you can actually do this in the workflow itself:

[Hans Polder _Devoteam_]

Apologies - this screenshot is for the Cloud version of JSM. Let me see if I can validate the same for the Data Center version.

[Hans Polder _Devoteam_]

I searched a bit, and found this previous post in the Community:

https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-Service-Management/Exclude-approver-possible-in-Data-Center/qaq-p/2793097

It does not appear to be natively possible, nor is there a clear workaround without using alternate apps. I wouldn't know how to do it via Scriptrunner, however in the post above there is a comment from someone who made it work using another app.