Multiple Approvers on one Approval Automation?

ellie111

My sheet has multiple approvers who vary by the row depending on certain criteria. I want to send them all the row approval request at the same time, then when they all click approve the project can move forward.

To count when the responses are all in, I am moving the entry to a new sheet and counting the references that have the same name then checks a box in the master sheet when that number = count of contacts in the Approver column. This works pretty well for my needs.

The only problem is after the first approver responds, the buttons to approve or deny go away on everyone else's request. is there any way for me to bring them back for everyone even after someone responded? If only one person denies then the whole thing has to go back a step for review anyway, so I am not worried about overlap. Any help will be extremely appreciated

Michelle Choate 2

There are work arounds to get them to all send concurrently. If you want to talk it through on zoom, email me.

Michelle Choate 2

Unfortunately, Smartsheet is hard coded to only need 1 approval per approval column. The easier way to have multiple approvals is to have multiple approval columns. One per person that needs to approve. Otherwise there is no way around the disabling of the link once the first person approves.

ellie111

Thank you @Michelle Choate 2 for the quick help!

I guess I am just stuck then at how to implement that work around if the approvers and their number is different for different entries? Also, if I did it like that could they all receive the request concurrently? I have been playing with this for a while and have not been able to come up with a solution

Michelle Choate 2

There are work arounds to get them to all send concurrently. If you want to talk it through on zoom, email me.