Approvals Status Check and forwarding- how to do it from a management perspective

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We have a travel approval that needs two line managers to approver your travel in order to travel. It is saved in a sharepoint list. The automation and approval works well enough however there is often a manager that misses the email or approval notification in teams, either through inattention or through absence/vacation.

We would like to know who has approved and who has not approved to avoid them hanging. How can I do that? I cant figure out how to do a status check on the approval. How can we reassign/forward to a new manager without involving that manager.

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Hi,

I'm running a handful of high volume approvals and you can see the approvals directly in Teams. Here's the steps to get there:

1) Go to Teams and click on Approvals in the left menu navigation. You might need to click on the "..." to find approvals.

2) In the top right (similar to Power Automate), click on the dropdown and select the environment where the approvals are being processed.

3) This will give you a list of all your approvals and status and who they are sent to. If you want to see who hasn't responded, you can click on an approval and see the current responses.

4) You can also export the entire approvals if desired.

What I typically do is when an approval response is received is send an https request and update the item's comments with the approver and their approval comments so I sometimes can start directly by looking at the item itself.

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Yeah but in my app the approval belongs to the staff member who is travelling not to me as admin. So that won’t work for me unless you do something else so it also appears for someone else in the org and thus able to see /reassign if needed.

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Hey there!

I am following up on this post approvals status check and forwarding- how to do it from a management perspective in this category building flows from 08/15/2024. I know the post is a little older, but it is a common question here so wanted to take a moment and follow-up. I see there have been 2 replies and 2 likes and asking if your question has been answered. If so, please help the community out by completing one or more of the following actions! Thanks in advance!

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If I can help with anything else please let me know or tag me in a future post, I enjoy reading and answering questions. Always glad to help! Tom 💯💯💯💯💯

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