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Hi all, we have had publishing approval flows in place on our modern Sharepoint intranet for some time, but recently they have stopped working unless users save and close the page (i.e. take the page out of edit mode) before submitting for approval. This is causing confusion, as to the general user the flow appears to have been triggered correctly but nothing happens.

Looking at the flow we can see it has started running but failed with the following error message (have Xd out identifying items):

{

"status": 400,

"message": "The file \"https://xxxx.sharepoint.com/sites/Communications/SitePages/News-flow-test.aspx\" is locked for shared use by xxx.xxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx.xx.\r\nclientRequestId: 9877745c-6c88-4b65-9b80-dbcea22c2d4d\r\nserviceRequestId: 0090c2a1-c04c-5000-d4fb-777831d20db1"

}

So clearly the approval flow is being prevented from running by the page still being in draft. Previously, when users pressed submit for approval the page would be automatically taken out of edit mode.

Can anyone confirm why this might have changed and whether we now have to specify a step in the flow in order to take the page/post out of edit mode - and if so, how?

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Using flows