Approvals in Microsoft Teams enables everyone, from frontline workers to corporate headquarters employees, to easily create, manage, and share approvals directly from your hub for teamwo...
Updated May 09, 2025
Version 6.0
Blog Post
Great release however I wish for something a little more functionality available from the teams gui.
Being able to add:
- Multiple attachments and notes related to each attachment
- Alternative approval Processes (for example; I'm the manager, I receive the invoice personally, I want to use approvals to send my finance team the invoice with my approval, then they just accept to confirm they have received it and the audit trail is there).
- If the approver needs more info, they should be able to contact the sender via the process, like in Planner, you can have a comments section where you can comment back and forth first before accepting/rejecting
- Approval Deadlines - So that approver gets notifed more regulary to ensure they approve the request
- Out of Office Notification - If the approver is away when you add them to the request it displays their OOO message, so you can clearly see if they are away or not so you may try someone else
- Email notification option - Not only notify the approver on teams but also via email with a link which takes them to the teams app to appove.
- Categorisation - break approvals down by categories (invoices approval, document approval, price deduction approval). So its easier to see when reviewing.
Stuff like this.. thoughts?