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I have an approval that is sent to multiple people. If some of the approvers don't act upon the approval then I want the approval to auto-approve after 3 days. How would I do this? I have tried the time-out, but can't figure out how to go about setting the outcome to Approved. Thanks in advance. 

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    1,736 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    @Anonymous Try below settings in your Approval action:

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    Hope it helps!!

     

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    Ankesh

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    Thanks. I tried this. The flow finishes successfully, but the approval status is still "Requested". I want it to say "Approved". How would I do this?

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    1,736 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    @Anonymous 

     

    There is no available way to automatically kick off another action without getting a response from the approver.

    While if you want to move on to the next action without a response from the approver with an Approve/Reject response, please try below workaround and see if it solves your purpose:

     

    Steps:

    - Initialize a variable name it VarReponse and keep the type as String.
    - Goto start an approval action. Selet …, then Settings, set the duration of Timeout. Then your flow will move on to the next action once it is timed out without getting a response from the approver.
    - Add an action Set variable. Set its value as Approved and configure it to run after. So that it will return Approve when the previous action is successful or has timed out.

     

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    Hope it helps!!

     

    Cheers,

    Ankesh

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