Automatically reassign an approval when someone is out of office, without power automate

[tlangfor]

I have built an app which includes an approval process built into the Power App (NOT using Power Automate).  It is all working but we need to find a way for the approval emails to be redirected if the approver is out of office.  Is there any suggestions on a way to do this without having to re-build my approval process in Power Automate?

[ivan_apps]

How are you determining if a user is out of office? Is it a manual process that you see their out of office message and manually reassign? Or are you trying to automatically catch an out of office message? Generally speaking, monitoring email for OOO is not a great idea.

What you should implement is redundancy in the approval process. Say an approval stage is 'Supervisor', you should have a supporting list of supervisors as well as their backups. When an approval enters that stage, you can either email the supervisor or email the supervisor and their backups. Set up your app so that it will allow anyone in the supervisor chain to approve.  You can send reminder emails just to the backups after a period of time without response.  As long as you set up your app to have a 'group' of people in the approval step instead of individuals - it should automatically take care of it without manual reassignment.