All must approve Outcome

[StephenGW]

I have an approval flow setup. It is an all must approve type but the Outcome is not giving me the result I need. If one person approves and the next rejects the Outcome shows all, how do I make so if one person rejects then the outcome is simply rejected but if all approve then it is approve?

Anybody know an easy way to do this?

Thanks,

[StephenGW]

Here is a screenshot of the whole flow, I can add more if needed. I think I need something after the approval the looks at the outcome and returns approved if the are all approve or reject if ANY are reject?

[Pstork1]

Outcome from an Approval is a comma delimited string of the responses from each of the approvers.  If you have three approvers and they all approve then it will be "Approve, Approve, Approve".  But it will return the outcome as soon as one person rejects.  So if you have three approvers and the first approves and the second rejects then Outcome will be "Approve, Reject".  It will not wait for the third approver's response since it was rejected.  The one problem with your flow is that you are looking at Outcome inside a loop through the Responses.  That is not necessary.  There will be one and only one Outcome for each approval.  But Responses will be an array of the individual responses to the approval.  This gives you access to the specific response, email address, etc of each responder.  Outcome lets you handle approval or rejection without a loop.  If you need the additional info then you can look through Reponses.

[StephenGW]

When I setup the condition it automatically added the Apply to each. So I don't need that? Or should I just switch the condition to if the outcome contains reject? What would be the best way to resolve this?

Thanks,

[Pstork1 · Accepted solution]

If you setup the condition to just use Outcome it won't force an apply to each on you.  If you use any of the Responses properties it will.  YOu must have added something other than Outcome at some point to end up with the Apply to each.  I normally use a condition of Outcome does not contain "Reject".  That will catch any rejections without having to figure out how many responses you actually got.

[StephenGW]

You are right, I must have done something wrong. I set it up again and it works great now!

Now if only I can figure out my other issue. On selected item flow not showing in SharePoint li... - Power Platform Community (microsoft.com) Any ideas on this one?

Thanks,

[ibpower]

I'm just picking up Power Automate after a few year break. I don't see the "Outcome" anymore when I work on a similar flow. Did some wording change? I know MS is always changing things.

[Pstork1]

Outcome is still the primary response when you do a start and wait for an Approval.  You can see it in the screenshot below.