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Sequential Approvals - Get DateTime for Each Approval

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We use a Power App to request production releases. After entering information Security team wants to document, various approvals need to occur (based on the type of prod release). A main part of this solution is being able to track the date & time of each approval. I'm having trouble capturing this value from the "Start and wait for an approval" action outputs. 
 
It seems that "Response Summary" output from the approval action might be the best bet, but I've not been able to parse out the "Response Date" and assign it to variables for each of the approvers. 
The Response Summary doesn't come as JSON, it's just a block of string text, so this might be a basic string manipulation, but so far I've had no luck. 
 
Any pointers would be much appreciated! 
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    Hi,
     
    if you are talking about sequential approval, then you can take the difference b/w Request date and response date to get the time duration taken for each approval.
     
    or if you just want the approval completion time only, you can use this approach by using responses dynamic content.
     
     
     
    Now output of the action would be like this
     
    [
    {
    "Nived":"2024-09-14T06:55:06Z"
    }
    ]
     
     
     
     
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