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Announcing SharePoint page approvals
Karen McCauley wrote:
Would love some info about
- how can you tell if page approval is in place on the site pages library- how can you remove a page approval flow
I configured a Page Approval Flow;
Then I deleted the Flow (from Flow);
it took a while (hours) - but finally removed it
Now, I see it again … not sure what is happening.
Any insight?
You can tell if page approval is enabled by:
- You should see Approval Status column in the library
- Navigate to Library settings->Versioning settings and you will see Content approvals turned on
To remove a page approval flow:
- You can delete or turn off the flow in Flow website
- However, note that even though you delete the flow, page approval is still turned on and SharePoint will fall back to non-Flow approvals since the Flow is no longer available.
To completely turn off page approvals for a Site Pages library:
- Navigate to Library settings->Versioning settings and turn off Content approvals
Hope that helps.
I tried to turn off the page approval flow by turning off content approval and deleting the flow. But when I turn content approval back on, it just shows configure page approval flow. This is a real problem for me, because I need approvals on this page, but the page approval flow only works for me since I'm the only one on targeted release. Any suggestions on how I can get a standard flow in there for page approvals until the page approval has full release?
Carol DeMuth Chakkaradeep (Chaks) Chinnakonda Chandran
Ditto, It is difficult to extol the benefits of moving from on premises toOffice 365/SharePoint Online, to the business when something as basic as an approval workflow doesn't work ;-(
Do we have an exact eta of when the 'fix' is going to be rolled out to 1)FR and 2) standard tenants? Fix in this instance doen't mean telling my client to shell out for one or more Microsoft Flow P1 licenses.
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Ironically, tomorrow I am meeting somebody to discuss building an OOTB SharePoint 2007 approval workflow for them #thisworksnowinuk.
Daniel Westerdale wrote:
Carol DeMuth Chakkaradeep (Chaks) Chinnakonda Chandran
Ditto, It is difficult to extol the benefits of moving from on premises toOffice 365/SharePoint Online, to the business when something as basic as an approval workflow doesn't work ;-(
Do we have an exact eta of when the 'fix' is going to be rolled out to 1)FR and 2) standard tenants? Fix in this instance doen't mean telling my client to shell out for one or more Microsoft Flow P1 licenses.
#
Ironically, tomorrow I am meeting somebody to discuss building an OOTB SharePoint 2007 approval workflow for them #thisworksnowinuk.
We are aware of this issue of approvals not working in the new tenants created since March 2018 in the UK region and the Approvals team is working on it. We hope to have it working soon. That said, today, the page approvals feature is available to First Release (Targeted Release) tenants.
Thanks!
Chakkaradeep (Chaks) Chinnakonda Chandran wrote:
Daniel Westerdale wrote:Carol DeMuth Chakkaradeep (Chaks) Chinnakonda Chandran
Ditto, It is difficult to extol the benefits of moving from on premises toOffice 365/SharePoint Online, to the business when something as basic as an approval workflow doesn't work ;-(
Do we have an exact eta of when the 'fix' is going to be rolled out to 1)FR and 2) standard tenants? Fix in this instance doen't mean telling my client to shell out for one or more Microsoft Flow P1 licenses.
#
Ironically, tomorrow I am meeting somebody to discuss building an OOTB SharePoint 2007 approval workflow for them #thisworksnowinuk.
We are aware of this issue of approvals not working in the new tenants created since March 2018 in the UK region and the Approvals team is working on it. We hope to have it working soon. That said, today, the page approvals feature is available to First Release (Targeted Release) tenants.
Thanks!
Thanks for the update. Incidently, I saw this error yesterday evering so maybe the fix is being rolled out our FR dev tenant
The request failed. Error code: 'XrmInstanceProvisioningIncomplete'. Error Message: 'A Common Data Service database for this environment has not completed provisioning or does not support approvals. A database administrator must save a Flow using approvals in order to complete provisioning.'.
In the interim, I guess we have number of options to present to the business:
- Use Emails with Actions ( tried this with one of the Flow Ambassedors on Friday)
- Build 2013 or 2010 style workflows if these can work against modern lists.
- Invest in Nintex Workflow Cloud, Skybow. or whatever.
I just created a separate custom Flow on the library and it works just as well as the out of the box page approval flow really. More work of course, but gets the job done.
