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Kerem Yuceturk
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Apr 02, 2018

Introducing "Request sign-off" - an approval flow that requires no set up

We are happy to announce a new feature in SharePoint called "Request sign-off". The goal is to provide you an easy way to send an item for approval to someone else. This feature enables an open appro...
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Dan Wright's avatar
Dan Wright
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Mar 15, 2019

Do you know if it is possible to create a column to display who has signed off the specific document?

Thanks

Kerem Yuceturk 

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    Jer Harwood
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    Mar 15, 2019

     

    Dan Wright wrote:

    Do you know if it is possible to create a column to display who has signed off the specific document?

    Thanks

    Kerem Yuceturk 

    With this existing Flow it would have to be a manual input by someone. You wouldn't be able to modify the Flow, but could create a new custom Flow with approval just like it and then add an update item step with the approval data in a separate column. This is pretty simple to do, like this example of an Approval History column, and there are a number of walk-through steps in this community and blogs and YouTube videos. 

    • Dan Foxley's avatar
      Dan Foxley
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      Apr 12, 2019

      Jer Harwood could you point me in the right direction for an Approval History Column example? I'm struggling how to get this column updated. What is the full flow to update a List item upon List item approval (not document).

       

      Thanks,

      Dan

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        Jer Harwood
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        Apr 12, 2019

        Dan Foxley 

        Dan Foxley wrote:

        Jer Harwood could you point me in the right direction for an Approval History Column example? I'm struggling how to get this column updated. What is the full flow to update a List item upon List item approval (not document).

         

        Thanks,

        Dan

        This is not directly relevant to the topic, but it's a simple answer... so... You just need a multiline text column in your SharePoint list to write the approval history to. Here's an example showing where we are updating a Status column (single line text) and Approval History column on the SharePoint list with the approval results. If you look up creating an approval Flow many have documented the steps shown here for converting the time zone to put in a response or value in a SP column like this. Utilize custom content types to hide those columns from the user SharePoint form.

         

    • Jer Harwood's avatar
      Jer Harwood
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      Mar 18, 2019

      Latest update received today from the support ticket I opened on February 6, 2019:

       

      Hello Jer Harwood,

       

      Hope you are doing well !

       

      My sincere apologies for delay in Response. Our Product team pushes improvements and features on weekly basis. These improvements are planned well in advance. But there are some of the improvements which will have lot of dependencies due to which it takes long time and sometimes it becomes extremely hard for us to define an ETA even though we have a road map of improving the feature. We hope you understand the complexity here. Our focus is always on improving customer experience and giving what customer is looking for sooner or later. 

       

      Since it is an issue with both the SharePoint and flow. Both teams are working on this issue with high preference.

       

      I’ll keep you posted regarding the updates.

       

       

      Regards,

      Sai Dinesh

      MS Flow and Powerapps Engineer

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