Mar 18 2021 11:34 AM
Am about to start using the Approvals app in Teams. In the course of setting it up and demonstrating the process I have accumulated a number of "test" approvals. I cannot see how I can remove these approvals so they are not cluttering up the list when we start using this process in real work. My Internet searches on the topic have not provided any useful information. Is it possible to delete them?
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@ChristianBergstrom Thank you for the response. I do appreciate knowing at least.
Mar 23 2021 02:55 PM
Aug 26 2021 07:13 AM
@dBrent did you manage to delete those 'test' items finally.
I have recently started using Approvals and have the same issue.
Thanks in advance
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Dec 08 2021 01:16 PM
I was looking into this for the same reasons and found that the approval records are stored in Dataverse tables. Go to Power Apps > Dataverse > Tables and look for Approval, Approval Request, and Approval Response. You can remove records by editing the table data in Excel under Data > Edit in Excel. If you haven't done this before you may be prompted to install the Excel add-in that connects to the Dataverse tables. After the records are removed from there, they no longer appear in the Teams Approvals app.
Dec 15 2021 01:19 PM
@Rob Fontaine Thanks very much for this response. It is helpful.
Dec 17 2021 10:11 AM
I totall agree that we should be able to delete bot messages. This is a problem across all of teams and leads to a very messy screen, when testing things out. @dBrent
Dec 17 2021 10:15 AM
Apr 03 2022 11:27 PM
Hi @Rob Fontaine,
Thank you for this. It's just what I've been looking for. Unfortunately, I don't know how to complete this procedure after deleting the undesired approvals. Is there something you press in the Excel sheet to sync it back to Dataverse or do you need to reimport this spreadsheet into dataverse?
Sorry for the silly question. Thanks for your help!
Regards,
Daniel
Oct 18 2022 01:58 PM
Hello! I was just testing this issue out myself and I found that you need to keep the "Microsoft Power Apps Add-in" connector panel open. After you delete the data - click "Publish" in that panel. This should sync the data back to Dataverse. I did have a error due to permission settings, but otherwise this should resolve the issue.
Can anyone else confirm that this will solve the issue?
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