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Documents Approval that requires the approver to open the attachment before approval

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Posted on by jonathand 2

Can Power Automate require that a document opened and viewed by the approver before they are allowed to click approve?

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    @jonathand  -

    I think that would be really cool! Unfortunately, that is currently not a feature that is supported in Power Automate approvals. You can submit your idea for new features here: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Power-Automate-Ideas/idb-p/MPAIdeas

     

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