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Assign individual tasks to SharePoint group members using "Start Approval Process"
Try to set the ExpandGroups to yes in your Action Properties
Steps
Right-click on your action > Select Properties.
At ExpandGroups set it to Yes
Each member of the group should now receive an ...
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Lazy Approval In SharePoint Online
You can use Approvals in Microsoft Flow and you can respond to your approvals (Approve or Reject) and provide an optional message directly from your outlook inbox.
Microsoft Learn - Official ...
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Is it possible to create a Approval Link to the form?
Click on three dots or hyperlink and make url in SharePoint workflow as shown bellow.
Basically, in the hyperlink editor add the following:
[%Current Item:Encoded Absolute URL%]/../EditForm.aspx?ID=[%...
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Enable visitors to see last published version during OOTB approval workflow
The scenario happens if you have no version 1.0 approved and published. If you have a version 1.0 approved and published, and a version 1.1 in approval workflow, users with at least read permission ...
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Approve/Reject Function Disabled for Approval Workflow
I found a solution to my problem. In the settings for the document library I did this:
Click "Versioning Settings"
For "Require content approval for submitted items?" I selected "Yes"
This allowed ...
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Add "Save" button and Approval Workflow in InfoPath
In InfoPath, a save is typically the same as a submit: both save the form to SharePoint. The typical pattern is to add a "status" field to the form. Give it a default value of something like "saved". ...
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Power Automate - How to Update SharePoint list with Approval Response
You have instructed to create an approval. If you need to return the outcome, you need to use Wait for an approval.
Wait for an approval
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Override rejected item to approved
You haven't specified much details. Based on your basic information, I am providing my approach.
You can always change the status of the item from Approved to Rejected and from Rejected to Approved.
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SharePoint online, workflow 2010 approval workflow
Yes, You can run any SharePoint workflow by properly redirecting to WF initiation page in a specific URL format. below is the sequence one should have to run a workflow:
../sites/your_sitename/...
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Manually change the status of the approval workflow after its completion
I would personally just restart the approval workflow so that the first person rejects the item. This way the workflow status and history accurately reflect the intent should it ever need reviewed.
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Automatically reject the document if it is rejected by any participant in SPD?
Try to do the following:
In your Start Approval Process Action
Start Approval process on Current Item with Hamza Qassas; Mohamed El-Qassas
Click on Approval word in your action.
In Customization ...
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Assign individual tasks to SharePoint group members using "Start Approval Process"
Do as Mohamed said, set the ExpandGroups to yes in your Action Properties, then choose Parallel(all at once):
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Approval Task Workfow 2013
What exactly is this ID?
The TaskID is the ID of the newly created (assigned) task in the same step. it's by design assigned to a variable called TaskID.
Is there a way to access the created task ...
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Assign Approvers based on folder?
You can check if current item relative URL is contain Folder name then assign task to related user.
You can refer below screenshot as example
To check current document inside Folder(e.g. Folder4) ...
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SP Online Lazy approval using SPD 2013 or MS flow
You may create a simple Microsoft flow approval process. The approver gets to see Approve/Reject button directly in the email notification received.
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SP Online Lazy approval using SPD 2013 or MS flow
This can be done with SPD2013 but it is far, far easier with Flow.
There is not a REST interface for SPD2013 workflows, so you would need to do it with JSOM, which makes it impractical if your ...
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SP2013 - Standard 2010 Approval workflow fails on start , cancelled by System Account
Last year I had a very similar problem, if not the exact same problem.
Overnight, all ootb SharePoint Workflows stopped working, with the error message:
Workflow XXX was canceled by System Account.
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MS Flow - Approval Email - Markdown Table
Since this a complex array, I used a combination of [Parse JSON] and [Apply to each] actions, and string functions to generate the HTML table to get the output as requested.
See the screenshots and ...
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Approval Workflow - force restart on item change
Per my test in my SharePoint online, it will not restart the workflow if I select the option “Start workflow automatically when an item is changed”.
There is no OOB method to restart the workflow when ...
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Publishing Approval Workflow initiation box and e-mail notification
Turning on Content approval will not activate the workflow, it will only activate content approval on document library and Approver group will have access to approve the site pages.
You will need to ...
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SharePoint Approval Workflow Issue
Is this an out-of-the box workflow? If so, you can't change it.
If not, you probably start the workflow on item changed. And if somebody changes the page, the workflow should start again.
What you ...
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Document approval workflow in document library?
In your designer workflow you can check the FOLDER name in the document URL I think. Only if its there then continue
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Document approval workflow in document library?
You can try it following way
Design your workflow using SPD
Create a web part for uploading documents using JCOM
If someone uploads document in a particular folder, then trigger your workflow using ...
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Approval Workflow mid-Workflow Versioning
There is an option in the Approval workflow configuration to cancel all approval tasks if the document is changed. If you tick this option, then in your scenario, the workflow will cancel on your ...
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How to avoid approver manually approve to override a workflow
There is no way to avoid. We have to work around it by permission policy. There are 3 types of users:
Site Admin (Full control) - Top level managers that seldom edit the site. Their job is assign ...
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Sharepoint 2010 Workflow - How to change Approval Status on "Create list item"
You need to use "Update List Item" action to update value in second list and you need only one workflow in first list. I have create a test workflow for you and you need to run this workflow when item ...
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List form - how can I allow the users to select approval workflow?
You only need one workflow that contains IF statements to test the value of the field on the form and execute the appropriate business logic.
Let's say you have a field named Approval Workflow on ...
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Approval Workflow in Document Library
You can attach Approval Workflow to the Document Library which is an out of the box workflow.
Go to Library Settings.
Workflow settings
Add a Workflow
Select "Approval Workflow" from the list of ...
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Approval Workflow in Document Library
Yes, it's possible to Add approval workflow on the document library as OOTB as mentioned below:
Open your document library.
From the above ribbon > Click on Workflow Settings > Add a workflow.
Add ...
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Start workflow once Approval workflow is 'Approved'
You don't need 2 separate workflows. Try approval process within your workflow.
Create a new workflow in SharePoint Designer and find a following actions.
Actions > Task Actions > Start Approval ...
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