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RyanSteele-CoV
Iron Contributor
Oct 27, 2023
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What happened to the New Lists Templates with Approvals?

According to MC525660 , the roll-out of the new Lists templates with Approvals app integration to Standard Release was supposed to be complete by "late September 2023 (previously late August)". While...
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  • RyanSteele-CoV's avatar
    RyanSteele-CoV
    Dec 01, 2023

    Well, I just had a very frustrating call with Microsoft Support. Basically, the feature is still in development rolling out, but the product team can't or won't put back the Message Center post with an updated date of when the deployment is expected to complete. We're all just left to watch the Microsoft 365 Roadmap to find out when (if ever) the feature gets rolled out to production.

     

    Edit: The feature is now available in the production ring in our tenant.

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karen_dredske
Iron Contributor
Nov 06, 2023
I bet they rolled them out, found a bug, and had to roll them back.
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RyanSteele-CoV
Iron Contributor
Nov 09, 2023
If that were the case, I would have expected the team to update the message center post accordingly, not to delete it entirely.

My theory is that the Lists team was impacted by the layoffs of 10,000 Microsoft employees that occurred in the spring, and they no longer have the resources to deliver the feature, but rather than coming clean about it, they're trying to sweep it under the rug. I hope I'm wrong.
  • RyanSteele-CoV's avatar
    RyanSteele-CoV
    Iron Contributor
    Dec 01, 2023

    Well, I just had a very frustrating call with Microsoft Support. Basically, the feature is still in development rolling out, but the product team can't or won't put back the Message Center post with an updated date of when the deployment is expected to complete. We're all just left to watch the Microsoft 365 Roadmap to find out when (if ever) the feature gets rolled out to production.

     

    Edit: The feature is now available in the production ring in our tenant.

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      flashbackuk
      Copper Contributor
      Aug 01, 2024

      RyanSteele-CoV it appears they're still rolling it out.

       

      https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/approvals-in-lists-2bd0954d-5797-4be3-b78a-846f26338e17

       

      This also says "Modern approvals is not yet available on document libraries."

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