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Hi all, any idea how to prevent duplicate approval for 2 start and wait for approval sent to the same group of approvers?

 

Example:

1) Notification sent to 5 approvers (A B C D E)

2) Approver A approved the flow

3) Approver A should not be receiving notification again for next approval and notification is sent to the 4 remaining approvers (B C D E) OR notification sent to 5 approvers but Approver A is not allowed to approve flow again.

 

Thanks!

  • claricelyy Profile Picture
    claricelyy on at
    Re: Prevent duplicate approval

    Hi, thanks for replying.

     

    Yes its for security reason so we require 2 approvals.

     

    How do I create a dynamic variable which contains the list of approvers and where do i populate the variable?

     

    does that mean that approver A will not receive any notification for the 2nd approval even though he/she was selected in the sharepoint list as one of the approvers?

     

  • SudeepGhatakNZ Profile Picture
    SudeepGhatakNZ 14,231 on at
    Re: Prevent duplicate approval

    @claricelyy 

    Certainly! Here’s an improved version of the language:

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    Is there a reason you have two approval actions? Are you trying to implement a two-stage approval process?

    To achieve this, I recommend creating a dynamic variable that contains a list of approvers. Populate this variable based on the responses from the first approval. Then, use this variable in the "To" field of the second approval action.

     

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