Approvals - ability to specify users/group(s) that can act on behalf of users

[tism]

The "Start an approval" action needs a "Delegate Users" field (or named something similar), which allows users/groups nominated in this field to:

• View the outstanding approvals/approvals history that have been assigned to other users, regardless of who has been assigned
• Approve/reject an approval on behalf of one of the nominated user(s)

Something similar to this:

The users nominated in the "Delegate Users" field do not receive an email when an approval is assigned to the user(s) in the "Assigned to" field - the only way they would see them is through the "Approvals" page in Flow.  This means the Approvals page would need a "My Requests" and "Other User's Requests"/"Delegated Requests" (or something similar) so that the logged on user can see which approvals have been assigned to them, and which approvals they are a delegate for.

This is similar to the need for administrative control over approvals (see my other post here), however provides for more granular control.

[tism]

If you vote for this, please consider voting for this idea also: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Flow-Ideas/Administrative-control-over-approvals/idi-p/122559

I have IT administrators of organisations that I've built flows for, screaming out for the ability to have administrative control over other people's approvals - as they should!

[testShen]

Delegation is an important function for MS Flow Approval.

The current problem is that after Approval has been sent out, we can do nothing except waiting. 

[Anonymous]

Agreed wholeheartedly - the ability to handle the approval for a manager, should they be on vacation or away for an extended duration (or an approval absolutely needing OK'd before moving forward and in an emergency situation), is a necessary business function.  

If it were possible to somehow capture a Flow ID automatically (e.g. when a Flow is created) and then cancel that Flow via another flow (kicked off from PowerApps, persay) would help bridge this need.  That the ID is not made available as a function to store makes this operation impossible.

Build more functionality in approvals!!

[asifkhawaja]

This is a much needed feature. How can you not allow someone to complete the approval on someone else's behalf. This is basic approval process requirement. Come on - it's 2020 Microsoft!

One (at least an admin) should be able to approve or re-assign an approval to someone else. 

Please make this available ASAP.

[virakones]

Please Microsoft we need this!