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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
let me know if you need any help
Tanya Denton
Jan 23, 2018Steel Contributor
Any 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.
- Martin JansmyrFeb 09, 2018Copper Contributor
I have the same problem. The approval flow is not very useful it it does not update Approval status and thus makes the document avaliable to users :( Solutions?
- 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.
- Michael LarsenMar 07, 2018Copper Contributor
This has been an issue for 2 years or more. Unfortunately the "the start approval when new item is added" is useless.