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How long is Teams Approvals history available in Approvals App?
We like Approvals, but would like to know how long users can see approvals requested or submitted by them in their Approval app history?
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- Hi, I have an end user who uses "approvals" quite extensively and recently they noticed old approvals older than 11 months are no longer visible with in the approvals teams app. Is there any other place they could view/find their historic approvals?
- I have the same question - How long is Teams Approvals history available in Approvals App?
- Has anyone found the answer too this?
I have approvals history going back to March 30, 2022 and today is October 7, 2022.
I thought I read somewhere that the Approvals stay for 12 months but I have been unable to confirm.
Will someone that has been using this for more than a year validate how much history they have ? DJTrustGod Hi, did you ever get an answer to this question?
- ThereseSolimeno could you please give a reply on the the question of DJTrustGod and AgriMike, or indicate where we could find the answer for this? Thank you
- Yes, please provide an answer. If we want to use approvals for audit purposes, it would not be good if they disappeared after 30 days!
Hi DJTrustGod Currently, flow runs time-out after 30 days, causing any pending steps (like approvals) to time-out as well.While this isn’t a problem for most approvals, there are cases where responding to an approval can take longer than 30 days. Check this out: Build long-running Approval Flows - Power Platform Community (microsoft.com)
ThereseSolimeno I am not referring to how a running Flow persists, but rather how long completed Flow history is retained in the recently released Teams Approvals. As indicated in the admin docs the Teams Approvals App consolidates all Flow approval history received or sent by users. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/approval-admin#security
