Adhoc Approval in Flow Designer

[davjohn]

Hello Team,

How to trigger ad-hoc approvals in flow designer for a RITM?

How to validate the approval status in the flow designer? I want to make sure all the approvals are approved including the manually added approvers and the group approvals triggered from the flow.

Thanks.

[Community Alums]

You'll want to do something like this in flow to check approvals

[davjohn]

So basically you are suggesting I iterate through each approval record and after the "Wait for condition" is satisfied continue with the flow and I believe the flow will follow the branch and not the main flow.

Some of the challenges I'm facing are,

• For the manually Selected users, the approval state is not changing to “Approval Requested.” FYI - I'm adding approvers by using the "EDIT" button 
• If I click on "NEW" on the related list it is not creating an approval record but it opens a new user record form.
• OOB email is not getting triggered to the selected users.

[Community Alums]

If you add approvals through the related list, they'll go in as "not yet requested", you'll need to manually change this to "requested". Also - it won't react to rejections in the same way as on the RITM (it won't reject the one you added if someone else in the approval stage rejects). 

Approvals aren't really designed to be added manually in this way. If it's something the requestor will know as part of the item submission, you should add it to the approval stage like a normal approval.

[davjohn]

Hello Mike,

Understood. May i know what do you mean by "you should add it to the approval stage like a normal approval."

Do you mean adding the approval groups in the flow designer in a pre-determined fashion ?

Can you please tell me if not from the related list how will you add mannual approvals to the RITM ?