Approval reminder - Multiple Approvers

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Hi All,

I have a flow with an approval step where both approvers must approve to move forward. I'd like to add a reminder if the approval hasn't been completed but I only want to send the reminder to the approver who has NOT already completed the approval. All the suggestions I've seen would send a reminder to everyone on the approvers list even if they had completed their approval.

I think the issue is that in order to know the approver response I need to have my do until loop after the approval step, yet to send a reminder I need to be running something in parallel with the approval step.

Anyone have any ideas?

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Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee on at

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Hi @robofski ,

Can you do cascaded approval? after the first one then to the next one? I don't think there is a way to retrieve who hasn't approve it at the moment.

You can try connecting thru CDS and see if list of approvers and status of each will be there thru Approval ID, but I doubt there will be and you need premium license.

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MattWeston365 1,701 on at

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Hi @robofski I have recently done this exact thing with someone I've been mentoring. I'm in the process of creating a video, so I'll hurry up and try to finish it off.

It basically starts from the automation which I've created in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mA5wiSusow

The difference is that my approvers are stored within a string, and are then removed from the string each time someone approves. I've attached the actual export to this post to get you going while I record it.

RemovingAuthorise...

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danrobson 119 on at

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@Anonymousthanks for the feedback, I had thought that too just wanted to see if anyone had any other suggestions. Appreciate the comment, at least I think I'm on the right track!

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danrobson 119 on at

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@MattWeston365Awesome thanks Matt, I'll take a look!

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danrobson 119 on at

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I'm a flow novice but I can understand what you're doing there, very creative, would never have come up with that on my own!

Excellent work @MattWeston365

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MattWeston365 1,701 on at

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Thanks @robofski if you need any further help please feel free to shout

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agustinmejiai 6 on at

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Have you done the video yet. My approvals are made with "email with options" because I have to attach a file to it. But I would like to send a reminder to the person that hasn't approved yet.

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danrobson 119 on at

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Yes, I used Matts video posted above and got my approval reminders working. Only thing to be mindful of is the flow keeps running until the reminder period times out even if there is no reminder to send but it’s a small price to pay for a great solution.

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@MattWeston365 Hi Matt! Is this video available? Looking forward to it!

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@MattWeston365

Hi there, I've been following through with your flow and integrating it into my approval process, but I noticed something weird here, maybe I done something wrong, but it seems that it's not working the way it's expected. In my case, I send to 2 people to respond, BUT the initial approval will only send to 1 person. After a minute without responding, we BOTH get the reminder email, but I never got that initial request. After 5 minutes, my colleague responds, THEN I get that initial approval email for approve/response. Is there a particular part of the flow I should take a closer look at?

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