Modern Approvals - option for comments required

[Anonymous]

Could an option be provided to set the comments field as required?

Possible options:

• Required for Approve and Reject (I'm the most interested in this option myself as this feature has been requested by various clients)  
• Required for either Approve or Reject

Thanks!

[Glenda]

We are also receiving questions to make the comments field mandatory (especially when someone rejects the approval task). Coudn't this possibility be included as a checkbox?

[4l3X]

It's confusing for our clients to have an optional comments. They want sometimes a mandatory if it's reject or hide them depending of the approval level.

Do you think you will do something ?

[Nisarahmed]

is this possible now?

[4l3X]

No

[tism]

This is a must. From a business point of view, if someone rejects something (which is usually the exception), the reasons for the rejection may need to be kept for auditing purposes.

[MichaelJeancn]

Vote for this idea, we have the same issue, especially for those rejected requests, an optional comments box is really easy to ignore for approvers.

[Rauf_Shakirov]

Yeah, this feature will be much appreciated. Required comments for rejected outcome is very common scenario

[Jambo1]

THis is a requirement from our client too

[levijohnson]

PLEASE ADD THIS FEATURE!!! Especially for rejects!!

[Stephen]

You could do this by re-sending the approval request with a note that comments are required, but this is clearly not ideal. We'll look at a better way to do this. Thank you.