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Documents that contain sensitive information often require approvals. With the content approval feature in SharePoint, you can put a simple approval process for documents in a specific document library. Using this content approval process, documents pending approval will not be visible to users until they are approved.
To turn off content approval in the SharePoint document library, Open the SharePoint Online document library -> Settings icon -> Library settings, then click on Versioning settings under General Settings. Then in the Versioning Settings page, Set No to Require content approval for submitted items? like below:
Who is allowed to share a document in SharePoint?
The Share dialog box lets you select “Everyone except external users.” If your organization allows external sharing, sharing with “Everyone” includes external users: people outside of your organization who have previously been invited to share documents as guests, either by you or by others in your organization.
In the modern list, you can see the Approval Status column. By default, the Approval Status of each existing items will be Approved. If you will open the Approve/reject Items list view in the SharePoint site. You will see all your Pending and Approved Items like below:
Understand approval workflows in SharePoint Server 1 About approval workflows. An approval workflow routes items in a SharePoint site to specified people for approval. 2 Default approval workflows. 3 Using the workflows in SharePoint Server. 4 Editing the workflows in SharePoint Designer 2010 or 2013. 5 Next steps.
How to set content approval status in SharePoint?
When approved, the content approval status of the document is automatically set to Approved; if rejected, the flow sets the content approval status of the document to Rejected. To set the content approval status of the document, with the SharePoint connector, use the Set content approval status action in the flow. The following actions occur:
Updates the SharePoint Online list with the pre-approver’s decision and comments. Note: If the request is pre-approved, the flow continues with these steps: Sends the request to the final approver.