More questions about Parallel Approval workflows

[khumphriespst]

This is a follow-on question from my post here. Thanks @Pstork1!

My SP document approval flow collects a list of names:

These names get processed into an array of valid email addresses, then to a string of delimited email addresses (to use for the Approval process assignments).

I use one parallel branch to send reminders until the approval process is complete, and the other to collect Responses and Comments, etc., and write-back to the SP document metadata.

Here are the issues.

1. The write-back only occurs at the end of the entire approval process. I would like more "real time" feedback.
2. The reminders go to the entire group of 1-15 names until all have responded, thus needlessly annoying up to 14 people.

I thought to use the array of Emails, and apply to each a one-name approval process. This way, reminders to the one-name would be isolated, and I could write-back immediately once a response was available to record. Like so:

How do I insert a parallel branch here? Or what other approach should I take?

[Gristy]

Hey,

The only way you are going to be able to do what you need to is basically have a parallel branch for each approval, as the task does not complete until all approvers have completed unfortunately.

[Pstork1]

Sorry for the late reply, but basically what @Gristy said is correct.  When you send approvals to a single approval action it doesn't move to the next step until all the Approvals are returned.  Similarly, since the responses are not processed until all are ready you can't update who to send reminders to.

[v-alzhan-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @khumphriespst ,

Your requirement couldn't be achieved, as @Gristy and @Pstork1  said, the start an wait for an approval action wouldn't finish before all the approver have made the response, if you want to get each response before everyone have made the response, please submit an idea to Flow Ideas Forum:

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Flow-Ideas/idb-p/FlowIdeas

Best regards,

Alice       

Community Support Team _ Alice Zhang
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