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MicrosoftConfiguring approvals for lists and libraries
I'm new to Flow and still trying to figure out how it all works, especially with SharePoint.
How does enabling Content Approval triggers the Flow provided for this? I have a custom Flow for approval and at the moment it triggers on every change of a document, and checks the approval status. Does this change with this new feature?? I see no effect what so ever by setting the new option..
MicrosoftHi Deleted, the new settings panel lets you pick between the Content Approval and Request sign-off features. Enabling Content Approval doesn't associate any flows for the library at this time. (We are working towards creating a template that you can use in the coming months). So setting Content Approval on, and associating a custom flow that you made that uses "set content approval status" action in it will work fine. We will later be adding a button to that panel that creates a flow for you that uses content approval, but for the moment, you have to create it yourself.
Any update on when the "content approval" flow will be working in a similar way to the request sign off workflow? As of Jan 2019 in my tenant , configure flow -> content approval does not follow through to a Flow configuration screen (like the "request sign off" one does)
In relation to "content approval" in the modern experience - I have it enabled on my library after having configure the flow, I note in the versioning settings == major only and the draft item security is that anyone with read permissions can read all items..
If the content approval status is "pending" , Does this enforce "draft item security" regardless of what is in the library settings? Does request sign-off flow enforce "draft item security" or again is this just setting a status flag/list column value?
the new OOTB Page approval workflow in SharePoint Online also uses Content Approval, major and minor(draft) versioning and sets the draft item security to "only people who can edit items" . This would be useful to have when the "content approval" flow is configure on a modern document library.
