SharePoint content approval

[smorley]

Hi Flow-people,

I've been looking around the interwebs for content approval, flow, and SharePoint.  I had this thing working.  Not any more.

I have a flow that triggers on when an item is modified.

I get the file metadata.

I'm updating the item and then going through the content approval action.

When it runs, it's still pending.

I remember this used to happen in SPD, that as soon as the it ran, it was set back to pending.

Any help, as always, would be appreciated.

[Pstork1]

The content approval functionality is tied to the old publishing features and the status will automatically be set to Pending when you start an approval action on the item.  You only need to manage the final Approved or Rejected status when doing an approval.

[smorley]

@pstork - thanks I do have to use the old ways for now, and the item needs to have content approval status set to approved.

[Pstork1]

YOu can change it from Pending to Approved or Rejected AFTER the approval response is returned.  Can you show a screenshot of where the Approval action is in regards to the Set Content Approval status?

[smorley · Accepted solution]

@Pstork1 I had it like this at the bottom of the workflow.

When I removed the "Update Item" action, and reran the workflow, the status stayed as approved.  i have a feeling there is another corresponding workflow that might be in play here.  At least I figured out what the problem was.  I think we can say crisis averted. 

[Pstork1]

If you try to update the content approval status right after you update the item then you need to do another Get Item.  Otherwise you are updating the status of an older version.  The update item can also cause the workflow to re-trigger, which would reset the approval status to pending.

[smorley]

Thanks - that's it!