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Hello all.

 

Hope everyone is safe and healthy.

 

I am trying to think what the best approach for this would be.  I have an flow that does automatic approvals.  What happens is that an approval is sent to be reviewed.  The approval has 2 buttons.  One to Deny and the other is to send the request to be reviewed for an Exception.  If nothing is done, the approval is set to timeout (3 hrs) and the request goes through and sends out the approval information.  If the Exception button is hit it the request goes through another series of approvals.  The 1st level of these are also set to timeout.  The timeout feature is used to send the request to the backup.  The deny button sends an email stating that the request is denied and then terminates.

 

For the 1st approval and the exceptions review (which also have approvals set to time out) is it possible to delay the timeout if it is outside of business hours/days?  

 

Thank you all.  

  • Re: Approvals delayed during the weekend

    Hi @Misa ,

     

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    Misa 246 on at
    Re: Approvals delayed during the weekend

    @v-alzhan-msft @ChristianAbata 

     

    Good morning and thank you.  

     

    Alice yes i have set the timeout for 3 hrs (PT3H) in the Settings for the Approval request.   toplvl.PNG2lvl.PNG1stlvl.PNG

     

    and as always, thank you again.

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    Re: Approvals delayed during the weekend

    Hi @Misa ,

     

    Could you please share a screenshot of your flow?

    How do you set the timeout for the approval currently?

    I suggest that you could check for the day when the approval starts, and you could start different approval for different day, and set the timeout time for each approval.

     

    Best regards,

    Alice       

     

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    ChristianAbata 8,947 on at
    Re: Approvals delayed during the weekend

    @Misa sure you can create a list with your available business hours and then you can compare if the time out is in your outside of business hours then do something. For the days of could be a good idea to get this from a days of report.

    In many orgs I saw that the people needs to send a form to get the vacations so days of, thats the info you need. In office 365 there are no way to know that becouse the users normally add a reply message but its not a stored value.

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