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What are the valid responses to an approval?
The valid responses to the Approvals – Start an approval action are “Approve” and “Reject”. These responses are case-sensitive. Your Condition card should now show: Add an email action for approvals
How to add a delay to an approval email?
Add a parallel branch next to the approval action. In the parallel branch, add a delay action. Set the delay to the period of time when you want the reminder email to be sent.
How to send a reminder email for approval?
Add a parallel branch next to the approval action. In the parallel branch, add a delay action. Set the delay to the period of time when you want the reminder email to be sent. After the delay, add a condition: If the document library approval status column = pending, send a reminder email.
How to create an email approval workflow?
Add a “Start an approval” action, specify Assigned to field value. Add a Parallel branch-> “Add a action”-> Add a “Delay action”, Count set to 7 and Unit set to Day ( On my side, set Count to 2 and Unit to Minute for testing ). Then add a “Send an email” action. The flow works successfully as below:
What happens if the first approver rejects the approval request?
In addition, if first approver reject the approval request, the whole approval request would be as rejected and the second approver could not make any response to this approval request. If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
What to do if your approver is not responding?
It also might be possible that approver is in leave and some other person may approve the request. Better, if the approver is not responding after certain time period then you can setup a escalation mechanism to send a notification to his/her manager. Think all this kind of scenarios and get them validated from Business.
How to send approvals requests outside the organization?
You can send approvals requests to persons outside your organization. To do this, use Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) guest users by inviting users from other tenants as guests. When you assign a role to a guest, this gives the guest the permission required to participate in the approval process.