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Microsoft Flow and document lifecycle for approving major versions
any update here Cathy Dew?
I believe an announcement at Ignite 2017 covers this. I too have been looking for a way to use Flow to approve and publish documents in a library, similar to the old 2010 build in publishing features where it could take a minor version, get approved, and publish it as a major version.
See "custom approval action" listed here and on other ignite summary announcements:
Chris McNulty, do you have any articles detailing this feature, or maybe an ignite session that demo'd it? Also, can you say if it will support tracking the approver? One thing that the old "publish" feature couldn't do was track who and when a particular document was approved (for auditing purposes). This is even a bit of a challenge in 3rd party workflow tools. This is a critical piece I'm hoping we'll be able to tap into when "custom approval actions" comes out.
Are there any updates on this? A very wanted feature.
Eric_Hthe link is invalid, it says "An invalid set of parameters has been specified in the url."
The URL does indeed keep changing for some reason. You can search the community for Chris McNulty's post titled "Reinvent business process in Sharepoint and Onedrive".
Here's an updated link, but not sure if it will last: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint-Blog/Reinvent-business-process-in-SharePoint-and-OneDrive/bc-p/114491
