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Power Automate - Building Flows
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Approval Status Not Updating

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Posted on 13 Oct 2023 14:40:37 by 31

Hi all,

 

I have flow which seems to be running okay, however when the document is approved, it is still showing "Pending" on the library.  Any ideas? Flow below:

 

AlexJ01_0-1697207965680.png

 

  • AlexJ01 Profile Picture
    31 on 01 Nov 2023 at 15:49:45
    Re: Approval Status Not Updating

    @BCBuizer That sorted it out! Thank you for your help 🙂 

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    22,070 Super User 2025 Season 1 on 18 Oct 2023 at 08:33:27
    Re: Approval Status Not Updating

    Hi @AlexJ01 ,

     

    As per this article, you can't change from Draft directly to Approved, as the status first has to be set to Pending:

    https://tomriha.com/how-to-set-content-approval-status-with-power-automate/

     

    The solution is to first set the status to Pending, and to Approved straight after.

  • AlexJ01 Profile Picture
    31 on 17 Oct 2023 at 13:22:24
    Re: Approval Status Not Updating

    Hi @BCBuizer  - I'm not sure exactly what you want to see? I'll add some bits below, but if there's anything else you need to let me know where to find it!

     

    From the "body" section: 

    {
      "error": {
        "code"502,
        "source""flow-apim-europe-001-northeurope-01.azure-apim.net",
        "clientRequestId""eb1e2832-02a5-495f-8db0-69beeea6e823",
        "message""BadGateway",
        "innerError": {
          "status"500,
          "message""The current state of the item is Draft and the following action Approve cannot be implemented\"\r\nclientRequestId: eb1e2832-02a5-495f-8db0-69beeea6e823\r\nserviceRequestId: eb1e2832-02a5-495f-8db0-69beeea6e823"
        }
      }
    }
     
    From the "Header" section:
    {
      "Cache-Control""max-age=0, private",
      "Vary""Origin",
      "X-NetworkStatistics""0,4204800,0,0,143785,0,37246",
      "X-SharePointHealthScore""1",
      "X-MS-SPConnector""1",
      "X-SP-SERVERSTATE""ReadOnly=0",
      "DATASERVICEVERSION""3.0",
      "SPClientServiceRequestDuration""100",
      "SPRequestDuration""101",
      "X-DataBoundary""EU",
      "SPRequestGuid""eb1e2832-02a5-495f-8db0-69beeea6e823",
      "request-id""eb1e2832-02a5-495f-8db0-69beeea6e823",
      "MS-CV""Mige66UCX0mNsGm+7qboIw.0",
      "Strict-Transport-Security""max-age=31536000",
      "X-Frame-Options""SAMEORIGIN",
      "Content-Security-Policy""frame-ancestors 'self' teams.microsoft.com *.teams.microsoft.com *.skype.com *.teams.microsoft.us local.teams.office.com *.powerapps.com *.yammer.com *.officeapps.live.com *.office.com *.microsoft365.com *.stream.azure-test.net *.microsoftstream.com *.dynamics.com *.microsoft.com onedrive.live.com *.onedrive.live.com securebroker.sharepointonline.com;",
      "MicrosoftSharePointTeamServices""16.0.0.24204",
      "X-Content-Type-Options""nosniff",
      "X-MS-InvokeApp""1; RequireReadOnly",
      "P3P""CP=\"ALL IND DSP COR ADM CONo CUR CUSo IVAo IVDo PSA PSD TAI TELo OUR SAMo CNT COM INT NAV ONL PHY PRE PUR UNI\"",
      "X-AspNet-Version""4.0.30319",
      "X-Powered-By""ASP.NET",
      "Timing-Allow-Origin""*",
      "x-ms-apihub-cached-response""true",
      "x-ms-apihub-obo""false",
      "Date""Tue, 17 Oct 2023 11:00:50 GMT",
      "Content-Length""485",
      "Content-Type""application/json",
      "Expires""Mon, 02 Oct 2023 11:00:50 GMT",
      "Last-Modified""Tue, 17 Oct 2023 11:00:50 GMT"
    }
  • BCBuizer Profile Picture
    22,070 Super User 2025 Season 1 on 17 Oct 2023 at 13:12:53
    Re: Approval Status Not Updating

    Hi @AlexJ01 ,

     

    Can you please share the full error details of this flow run? 

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    31 on 17 Oct 2023 at 12:29:54
    Re: Approval Status Not Updating

    Thank you @BCBuizer, the flow is failing by the looks of things: 

    AlexJ01_0-1697545782971.png

     

  • BCBuizer Profile Picture
    22,070 Super User 2025 Season 1 on 17 Oct 2023 at 09:30:11
    Re: Approval Status Not Updating

    Hi @AlexJ01 ,

     

    Then let's have a look at the flow runs. Can you share one for an items where the status is not updating?

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    31 on 17 Oct 2023 at 07:59:55
    Re: Approval Status Not Updating

    Hi @BCBuizer -I have tried refreshing, but it still shows as "Pending"

  • BCBuizer Profile Picture
    22,070 Super User 2025 Season 1 on 13 Oct 2023 at 16:16:39
    Re: Approval Status Not Updating

    Hi @AlexJ01 ,

     

    The flow itself seems correct. Did you refresh the SharePoint page after the approval for the change to reflect?

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