API Used to Approve Contract in Oracle Lease and Finance Management(OLFM)

• Review and approve the contract before activation, you can approve one contract at a time from the booking page and initiating the approval workflow. 
• To perform a mass update to change the contract status to APPROVED using the approval API. 

• The contract status must be updated to APPROVED before a contract can be activated i.e. BOOKED, but execution of the approval workflow is an optional step. 

• Use the following API to submit contracts for approval.

API Name	Description
OKL_CONTRACT_BOOK_PUB. SUBMIT_FOR_APPROVAL ()	This program will submit the contract for approval

Note:- There is no parallel processing or bulk processing capabilities for contract approval program.This API can be called one contract at a time. If you need batch processing capabilities to submit multiple contracts at one time, you can create custom wrappers. If you want to by-pass the approval workflow, you can create a custom program to update the contract status to APPROVED once contracts are validated and in PASSED status.