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SharePoint Content Approval and Email Alerts
Hello, I need some ideas or suggestions around email alerts that related to the out of the box approval for a document library. The goal was to use email alerts as it lets people opt in if they w...
Chris Gullicksen
Views filtering system generated columns (like Approval Status) and Calculated columns will not appear in the Alert me page. This is by design.
I will recommend to try Power Automate for alerting. I haven't tried but here is a thought - Set another column using Flow when approval status is set. Use that other column to filter and for alert settings.
Views filtering system generated columns (like Approval Status) and Calculated columns will not appear in the Alert me page. This is by design.
I will recommend to try Power Automate for alerting. I haven't tried but here is a thought - Set another column using Flow when approval status is set. Use that other column to filter and for alert settings.
Thanks. We've been using PA, and it's not helping. The problem seems to be caused by the approval status changing the second we open the page to edit it which triggers the alert.