For each loop to check group approval in flow designer

[MS17]

Hi All,

I have a requirement to review the group annually, if group has no manager or manager is inactive, we need to trigger approval to "admin" group, if anyone from this group is rejected, then deactivate that group, if approved keep it active, if no action taken, then wait for 5 days and trigger reminder notification, still no response, then the group should be deactivated.

I created a scheduled flow to trigger every year,  I created group approval record for each group which has no manager or manager is inactive, now i need to check if anyone from the group is approved/rejected for each group approval record, can anyone help me                        

[Ankur Bawiskar]

@MS17 

Why are you not using Ask for Approval OOTB flow action?

after the Ask for approval you can check whether the approval was Approved/Rejected and based on that take next action

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[MS17]

Hi @Ankur Bawiskar , 

I tried Ask for Approval also, but inside for each, once group approval triggered, it is waiting for approved/rejected for the group, then only the approval triggering for next group, but i want to trigger group approval at a time for all the groups matched with the condition

Thanks.

[Ankur Bawiskar]

@MS17 

so you want parallel approval

there are challenges when parallel approval comes into flow.

when you use "Do the following in parallel" flow logic and use multiple "Ask for Approval" then Decision from 1st approval is being applied to all the approvals

see these blogs and the KB from ServiceNow with a workaround

Parallel Approvals in Flow Designer 

Parallel Approvals in Flow Designer 

the below KB talks about the issue you are facing and a possible workaround

Using Parallel Approvals in Flow Designer is only respecting the Approval Decision of the First Appr...

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[Dinesh Chilaka]

Hi @MS17 ,

Instead of using create record action to create group approval records(trigger approvals) ,use the OOB action ask for approval .Select the record as the group record which will be find as manager is empty or manager is inactive above and select the Rules as Approves or Rejects and select the group as Admins Group

Then Immediately use the if-condition to check whether the approval is rejected or approved and continue with your logic

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