In order to approve some code being released into production, there is an approvers Group of 5 people who can approve.

Reporter must be excluded and, furthermore, I need to exclude certain users selected in an user picker custom field

Any user can approve on behalf of all users.

I.e. If the Approvers Group includes “Tom, Bob, Jim, Sam, Frank”, Reporter is Frank and the excluded users is filled with “Sam, Bob” then I’d like enable to approve Tom, Jim.

You can review instruction to create a custom field on the related Atlassian documentation.

You do not need to add this custom field to any Screen and you do not need to specify any Context.

1. Navigate Add-ons → HERZUM APPROVAL →Approvals.
2. Click the Add Approval button.
3. Fill the Add Approval Configuration form
   

4. Fill the User Picker Field _Any by selecting the Approving Users with Exclusion User Picker custom field
   

5. Click
6. Specify the expression to populate the custom field
   
7. You are able test the expression on an issue in order to check its correctness as per following examples
   

   1. Reporter belongs to the selected Group and 'Approving Excluded Users' field is empty

   2. Reporter belongs to the selected Group and 'Approving Excluded Users' field is filled with users that belong to the Group

   3. Reporter doesn't belong to the Group and 'Approving Excluded Users' field is empty

8. Save the Expression
9. Save the Approval configuration

You can update an existing Approval Single Property by specifying the expression to populate the user picker custom field.

1. Click
2. Specify the expression to populate the custom field
3. Save the Expression
4. Save the Approval configuration

You can expect that this updated setting is active on any issue that have not already moved in the status requiring this approval.

Case of issue that are already waiting this approval, the updated setting becomes active on loading the issue or running an Approval Re-indexing.