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Approval Flow - Approval Status - why can't this be updated?
- I am super excited! Finally, this now works. I can now set up a flow to use the standard 'document' Content Approval. Well done Team Flow!
Hi there Tanya Denton...can you provide in some detail how you got this to work? I've been pulling my hair out trying to get the Approval Status flag to change depending on the response sent out from the Flow approval e-mail, and I can't seem to get it to work. I am using the 'Set content approval status' that Michal Golan mentioned, but it doesn't seem to work.
What am I doing wrong?!?! :)
- Here is a document with the broken down steps. Although the steps say item it is based on a Document library. the only part that i believe is not possible is to start the flow when you use the 'Publish' document feature, but from Draft the user can go Flow and select the flow to start the approval.
that is not the case, here is an example of a library I just created using a tutorial from edX and it has the workflow status. it was correctly updated by clicking on the button/link in an email message
Dean_Gross Where is this tutorial? I have the same issue. I have the lovely email to approve or reject, but when my users click on the approve button it does not update the status. My users tried this without opening the document and it didn't matter. We get an email that the file is locked by the user.."who didn't open the file", it says it is locked by the user and cannot update the status field.
Hi everyone.
Please remember that you have to specify the ETag in the update item action after the approval, otherwise you will be faced with errors.
- Jon Levesque
Microsoft
Tanya, you can absolutely update the approval status field.- OK, thanks i will give it another go.
- Jon Levesque
let me know if you need any help
Having the same issue. Also using library for ISO compliance. I cannot read the value in the Approval Status either which makes it much harder to send emails. Can someone from MS reply to when this basic functionality may be available in Flow?
Hi,
Any updates on this issue?
Having the same issue, document library with "Required approval" turned on and major and Minor versions.
I need ONLY when a user Publish the document as Major approval that the flow will update the approval status accordingly.
Hi all,
I'm dealing with the same. Is there any update regarding this issue?
Thanks,
Soraia
- As far as i am aware Flow does work with standard Approval but not in the same way as SharePoint Workflows in other words like for like does not seem to work. We use minor major versioning with approvals and I cannot see a way of replicating Approvals with Flow. If anyone out there has clear instructions on how to achieve this, then I would be eternally grateful for them.
I would recommend asking this question over in the "main" Flow Community at https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Flow-Community/ct-p/FlowCommunity that is where the product team and many Flow MVPs participate.
The fact that there are 2 communities is beyond annoying (:
