SharePoint Online Document Approval - Continued!

[satanicguardian]

Hi guys,

I'm hoping someone here knows something about workflows/lists in SP online, I’m working on a project here which I’m struggling with and is a continuation of a post from the other day, I've had a marginal level of success thanks to a member on this forum but I'm still short of my goal! (Because the boss moved the goalposts and made what we need to achieve a lot more complicated!)

Basically I’m trying to create a library/list that whenever a user uploads a document, it notifies a preselected administrator who is then required to approve or decline the document, once this choice has been made the document/item needs to stay In the library and display information such as the person who uploaded it, the person who approved/declined it, the time/date and its approval status.

It’s for auditing purposes in short! I’ve had a few goes with different things such as the New MS Flow, which is pretty cool and SharePoint designer to create a custom workflow (which hurt my brain). The best results I’ve achieved is that a user can upload a document, it emails me and asks me to approve/decline (which I can do from my email client) and then it lets the user know my choice, it lacks the information/timestamps/status etc.

Has anyone got any idea the best way I should go about this, it’s very confusing to me as I’ve had very little involvement with workflow/automation before!

Thanks in advanced guys!

Jamie

 

[satanicguardian]

Ok let me re-explain it that first time didn't make a lot of sense:


Basically require a setup wherein a user uploads a Health and safety report to a SharePoint library, once they've done this the appointed administrator will receive a notification of some description.

The administrator then opens the SharePoint library and in some style of list view, is able to select Approve/Decline from a drop down box.

Once they've chosen to Approve/Decline I want some automated process (perhaps a workflow) that then puts a time stamp of when the document was approved, and who it was approved by.

It's basically a way to streamline an auditing process but it's proving tricky, I'm sure it's possible but I don't know quite how!