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    How to set expiry/ timeout for Approval


    �ows in Power Automate
    by Debajit Dutta (Former 6x Business Solutions MVP, MCT) / December 8, 2022

    Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. In today’s blog I will show how you can set expiry time
    for your approval flows in Power Automate.

    If you have worked with Power Automate, you have most likely used Approval flows. What if
    there is a requirement to set a time limit or expiry period for your approval flows?

    Let’s take the an example. You have a leave management approval flow that you have configured
    using Power Automate. If the approver does not make a decision on the leave request within 15
    days, the leave request shall be automatically approved.

    In this scenario, you need to set the Timeout for your approval flow. Quite unknown to many, you
    can indeed set the expiry of an approval flow.

    Select the three dots (…) on your approval action and then click on Settings.

    In the pop-up dialog that appears, you need to set the timeout of the approval flow.

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    You need to set the Duration of Timeout for in ISO-8601 format. Following are few examples.

    • 1 Month -> P1M

    • 1 Day -> P1D

    • 10 Minutes -> PT10M

    • 10 Seconds -> PT10S

    • 1 hours 30 mins -> PT1H30M

    In my example, I have set the value to PT1M – which is basically one minute.

    Now when the run the flow, the approval waits for 1 minute and times out.

    That’s great isn’t it? But how do I handle Approval expiry timeout?

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    You can configure the flow as shown in the below screenshot.

    I am using a parallel branch. On the left hand side, I am sending out an email when the approval
    has expired. I have configured the action to run on timeout of the approval action.

    The other branch is the usual way of checking the outcome of the approval. When I now run the
    flow and the approval times out, the email is being sent. Remember the ‘Send Email‘ step was
    configured to run if the Approval action timed out.

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    From the above screenshot, you can see the email step is executed post one minute of timeout.

    Below is the flow run when the approval is completed within the specified time

    Hope you liked this post. If this post has helped, you can buy me a coffee.

    For similar topics on Microsoft.NET and Power Platform, subscribe to my blog using
    the Subscribe option on right pane.

    Debajit Dutta
    Business Solutions MVP

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