Is there any way to capture comments via the Lazy Approval emails in O365?

[courtney_shelto]

We have a workflow that is utilizing the "Assign a Task" feature. We have provided users with the ability to approve these tasks via SharePoint using a Nintex Form and changing their "Approver Status," but we're interested in allowing them to utilize the "Lazy Approval." We've done some testing with it and really liked the results, but the only hang up is can you capture comments? I found a thread of someone doing it with 2010, though it doesn't seem that I can take the same steps in 365.

Any help is appreciated!

[andrewg · Accepted solution]

Here is the complete documentation around Lazy Approval http://help.nintex.com/en-US/O365/Default.htm#O365WorkFlow/Creating workflows/LazyApproval.htm

Currently O365 doesn't track the comments from lazy approval. But it may soon.

[courtney_shelto]

Hey Andrew, thanks. I did look over the documentation, but didn't see it reference it anywhere. I was curious if someone had "found a way," or if it was just not in the documentation and had been added recently. Thanks.

[andrewg]

No, unfortunately it isn't available, but you can vote for the feature from the UserVoice and it will keep you up to date on the progress of the feature.

[orzamaria]

Hi Andrew,

Is there a possibility to track the comments from lazy approval now?

Maria

[tposzytek]

Unfortunately still no such feature

[orzamaria]

Thanks Tomasz,

 hope it will become available soon...

[jekcalingan]

Does anyone has a workaround for this? Thanks in advance.

[callum]

Hi Ricardo,

We're actually just working on bringing this to Lazy Approval in O365 now, you'll be able to include a comment on the same line as the outcome and we'll write that to the task for you.

Do you have any specific needs with your use case other than grabbing this comment for the workflow?

Callum

[jekcalingan]

Hi Callum,

Thanks for the response, I'll be looking forward to to it.

We just basically need to send the comments thru an email specially the reason for rejection.