If expression on Dynamic Multiple Approvers Outcome

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I am building a approval system that on the 1st level will have Multiple Dynamic Approvers. I have set this by getting the email address of selected Persons from SharePoint List and the multiple email address will show in another column.

My problem is since the flow is set to apply to each approvers, the flow is still pushing to the next approver even though one of the 1st level approvers rejected the approval.

So my idea is to create variable that if the outcome from all the 1st Level Approvers is not all "Approve" then show string as "Reject" before it reach the 2nd Level Approval flow. So that I can create a condition prior to start of approval on 2nd Level, it would look at the variable if "Approve" or "Reject".

The if expression seems not working or am i doing something wrong.

if(equals(outputs('1st_Approval')?['body/outcome'],'Approve'),'Approve','Reject')

Please help.
 

[tom_riha]

Hello @Anonymous ,

you don't need any variables or expressions, you can add a 'Condition' to check if the 'Outcome' contains 'Reject'. If it does, it was rejected by one of the users. Otherwise it was approved by everyone.

[Anonymous]

Hi @tom_riha ,

I have a condition that checks the 'Outcome'. However, since the whole condition is set to 'Apply to each' even when the 1st approver 'rejects' the approval its still pushing to the next approver as long as the last responder of the 1st approval 'approves' the approval.

Apply to each:

1st Approver:

2nd Approver:

Same goes vice-versa.

[tom_riha]

Hello @Anonymous ,

ok, you'll need a variable. 🙂 Add one more variable to store the approval outcome (approved or rejected), and add also one more 'Condition' before the 'Approval' task to check if the variable is set to approved or rejected. If it was rejected, don't create any more tasks. It should look similar to this post.

[Anonymous]

Hi @tom_riha,

That's where I am having a difficulty with, storing the results for each Approver.

If I set the variable outside the Apply to Each box, I could not get the Response of the Approval.

If I set the variable inside the Apply to Each box, the last responder, if its approved, will still push to the next level of approver.

[tom_riha · Accepted solution]

You don't need a response for each approver, you can take the whole Outcome that contains all the responses separated by a comma and check if it contains 'Reject'. If it does, somebody rejected.