Building a Two Step Approval Process, but second condition is failing

[Anonymous]

So I am making a two part approval flow. When a iteam is created, a approval email is send out. Then once it is aproved/rejected the iteam is updated with the result, approver name, appving time and then a email with the result is sent out to the creater of the entry. 

Then a second appval starts (approval 2) and behaves similarly. The 'Send and Email' step is a email to the approvers that the process is complet.

Everything is working well expect for Condition (2nd last step). This step is the same as above it updates the entry and sends the results to the iteam creator. However this step is being bypassed. Did I do something wrong in the set up?  

[leo85]

Hi @Anonymous ,

your condition shows "Responses". In my conditions I check for the "Outcome". If this always results in "false" the data maybe different than what you thought.

Could you post the output of "Approval" and the code of the condition?

Regards,

Leo

[ScottShearer]

@Anonymous 

As mentioned by @leo85 you should be checking the Outcome output from the Approval action in your condition.

[Anonymous]

Hello @leo85 and @ScottShearer ,

Thanks for the reply. I  changed it to outcome but when I do that the run fails. 

If I keep 'Choose a Value' or Responses, the run is successful but the condition is skipped over. 

Also here is how approval 1 is set up, I had used a template. 

There is a difference between what the templlate did and what I did. When I try to right the response date, approver name and aprrover comments to the list I have to include the 'Apply to each'. 

[ScottShearer]

@Anonymous 

Can you post a screen shot of the error?

[leo85]

Hi @Anonymous ,

the "approval" action always returns an array, because it is possible to have more than one approvers. You get the apply to each loop, because it iterates over all items of the array. If you only have one approver, this is not an issue. If you have multiple approvers, this will result in the first updates being overwritten.

From what you report, the first condition should also always result in "false", because "" is not equal to "approve" and the responses object is also not equal to "approve".

Could you please post the error message? Without it, it is hard to say what the error actually is.

[Anonymous]

@leo85 @ScottShearer 

Apologies for the delay. This is the error message for the run at 2:04pm when I used Output in condition 2.  Would the error be caused by  how I set up the apply to each condition or  the sharepoint list not connecting properly ? 

[leo85 · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous ,

as you can see in the screenshot the action causing the problem is actually "Update item 3", with an error "resource not found".

So the problem seems to be that you are updating an item, which does not exist.

The conditions result is "true", which is what we would expect if you use "Output" from the response.

Make sure that you are updating the correct item on SharePoint.

Regards,

Leo

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[Anonymous]

Thanks @leo85! I reviewd it and found a mistake in the ID field for the "Update Item 3"