Approval process: Get response from each approver

[Petr_Hrncir]

Hello everyone, 
we have a repository of directives on SharePoint for which we need to build an approval process. This works for me. 

Right now I would like to record each Approver´s response in MS List. I created 2 lists. The First List records all the approvers who have been asked for their approval (to have visibility about the distribution list). The second list records all their answers. The problem is that flow does not create any item in List 2 until all approvers provide their feedback (approve/decline). I am not able to find out who is missing and blocking the whole approval flow. I need to create an item in List 2 for each response, not waiting for all of them. 

Do you have any idea how to do it? Thank you in advance. 

Best Regards, 

Petr 

[Koen5]

Dear P,

It looks to me that you are trying to use the standard defined approval process in a way that it was not designed. There are several ways around this, but you will deviate from the standard and this can become complicated.

This comes to mind:

• Instead of creating 1 Approval to which several users must respond ... create several approvals to which 1 user must respond. As such you will have a single approval flow per user and can track these separately. At the back-end you will have a supported excel sheet or something which tracks the various single-user approval flows with the same origin ID (custom ID generated per flow). The flow checks regularly if all approvals for the same origin are in and once complete, continues.
• Step away from the standard approval process and do an approval process by custom design supported by emails/forms and back-end Excel.
• There seem to be several Premium apps which offer more than just the standard approval actions.

Hope this helps,

Happy flowing,

Koen