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Tanya Denton
Jan 16, 2018Steel Contributor
Approval Flow - Approval Status - why can't this be updated?
I am hoping i am missing something! Just looking at moving approval workflows from SharePoint workflows to Microsoft Flow. From what i have read the flow cannot update the standard 'Approval Status'...
Jon Levesque
Microsoft
Jan 19, 2018Tanya, you can absolutely update the approval status field.
Tanya Denton
Jan 22, 2018Steel Contributor
OK, thanks i will give it another go.
- Jon LevesqueJan 22, 2018
Microsoft
let me know if you need any help
- Tanya DentonJan 23, 2018Steel ContributorAny help would be appreciated folks. All examples of flow approvals i have found relate to Lists, not Documents. @DeanGross, thanks for reminding me of the edX resource, i had forgotten about that. However the example you have given is a list and as far as i can tell your Status field is a hand crafted field with options?!?. I am referring to a document library with Approval turned on, which obviously then automatically produces the [Approval Status] field. This [Approval Status] field is the one i cannot change in a flow, and as far as others have posted, as of yet you cannot update the [Approval Status] with a flow. Hope someone can point me in the right directions.
- Alex RichardsFeb 26, 2018Copper Contributor
I have exactly the same problem, this seems like a small glitch that hopefully Microsoft can solve ASAP because i have clients waiting to use this process for their ISO 9001 compliance.