JSD Cloud Next-Gen project - Approval Transition permissions

[David Lister]

We have turned off the ability of our agents to "Assign any request" because we want them to take ownership of tickets so a ticket can't be assigned to someone unavailable.

After doing this we added a new request type that has approvals at the beginning of the workflow,  right after Create.  However, once a user tries to submit this they get a message stating "You cannot create this request because you do not have the "Assign Issues" permission.  Please try another request on the portal."

There is no assignment going on that I can see except possibly the application doing the assignment of the approval.  Is there a way around this issue?