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Can't Retrieve Approval Actions

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I have created a multi-approval flow and have given people the option to leave a comment. If someone in stage 1 of the approval leaves a comment then display that comment in stage 2 approval. When doing this, it puts the Start and wait for an approval action in an apply to each loop. Due to this apply to each loop when adding a condition beneath the approval i can't get approval 2 actions e.g. outcome etc. How can i change my flow so that i can still get these actions and have the comments in my flow.

 

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  • Pstork1 Profile Picture
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    Re: Can't Retrieve Approval Actions

    If you want just the comments of the second approver then you can use set variable instead of append to overwrite the first approvers comments.  If you want both then just append to the existing variable.  Make sure to add a carriage return by hitting Enter before you append the comments.  Otherwise they will all appear on one line.

  • Aazza Profile Picture
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    Re: Can't Retrieve Approval Actions

    Thank You, So i now have the responses of approval 1 going into my second approval. Question is now how do i get the comments from the second approval into the third? Do i initialize another variable? Do i append to another string variable?

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  • Pstork1 Profile Picture
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    Re: Can't Retrieve Approval Actions

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  • Aazza Profile Picture
    108 on at
    Re: Can't Retrieve Approval Actions

    Thank you, Could you provide an example of this please if possible?

  • Pstork1 Profile Picture
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    Re: Can't Retrieve Approval Actions

    The problem is that the responses to the approval are always provided in an array.  So when you try to retrieve the comments its generating the apply to each loop on the responses to get the comments.  The easiest way to handle this is to create a string variable before entering the loop.  Then in the loop append the comments to the string variable.  Then use that variable in the email.

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