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Sending Email Notifications in Approval Process

You can set up email notification templates to notify your users and respondents during the approval process. If you choose to add Microsoft 365 users as approvers, you can create a separate email template to notify them when they receive a form entry for review.

Notify users when they are added as approvers                

When users within your organization are added as approvers in a level, you can choose to notify them by sending them an email with a link to the form for which they have been added as approvers.
To do so,

  1. While setting up a level of approval, select Notify your users when they are added as approvers under Notifications.

  2. Click Configure Now and customize the email template as required.

    Notify users when they are added as approvers

Notify approvers when a new record is submitted for approval   

When a record is submitted for approval in a level, you can notify the approvers in that level by sending them an email with a link to the record that they have to approve.
To do so,

  1. While setting up a level of approval, select Notify approvers in this level when a new record is submitted for approval under Notifications.

  2. Click Configure Now and customize the email template as required.

    Notify approvers when a new record is submitted for approval

Notify respondents/approvers when this level is marked as complete

When a record is approved in a level and passed on to the next level, you can choose to update the status of approval to your respondents and approvers by sending them an email.
To do so,

  1. While setting up a level of approval, select Notify respondents/approvers when this level is marked as complete under Notifications.

  2. Click Configure Now and customize the email template as required.


Configuring the Final Approval Email template

The Final Approval Status is the status of the form entry after crossing all the levels of approval in the Approval Process. If the Final Approval Status of a record is Approved, you can trigger an email notification.
To configure the template for the email to be triggered on final approval,
  1. Navigate to Approvals tab Approval Settings and click Final Approval Email.
  2. Specify the From and To email addresses, Subject, and Message of the email.
    You can select the email address of your org users as the From address by clicking the Add Sender Email option in the dropdown.
    You can merge values from the form responses in the subject and the message using the Merge Tag.
  3. You can choose to send a PDF copy of the form entry and merged documents as attachments to the email.
  4. Click Save.


Configuring the Final Denial Email template

The Final Approval Status is the status of the form entry after crossing all the levels of approval in the Approval Process. If the Final Approval Status of a record is Denied, you can trigger an email notification.
To configure the template for the email to be triggered on final denial,

  1. Navigate to the Approvals tab Approval Settings and click Final Denial Email.
  2. Specify the From and To email addresses, Subject, and Message of the email. You can merge values from the form responses in the subject and the message using the Merge Tag.
  3. You can choose to send a PDF copy of the form entry and merged documents as attachments to the email.
  4. Click Save.            
                              

Configuring email template for Microsoft 365 approvers

When you add Microsoft 365 users as approvers, you can configure a separate email template to notify them when they receive a new form entry for review. When notified, they can view the form entry and approve or deny the record directly from their outlook email.
To set this up,
  1. While setting up a level of approval and configuring the email notification template under Notifications, click   near the Message section to create the template.

    mail template for Microsoft 365 approvers

  2. Personalize the Email Header and Email Footer messages of the template.
  3. Under Choose Record Summary Header Fields, select from the NamePhoneEmail and Address fields in your form that you wish to display as record summary header in the email notification.
  4. Under Choose Form Fields, select the form fields to be displayed as a summary inline and enter a Display Name for each selected field.

    Outlook Template

  5. If the approver uses Zoho Forms app in Microsoft Teams, you can choose to send the approval notifications to the Microsoft Teams channel with actionable cards to approve or deny the request each time a form entry is received as shown.

    Approval notifications to Microsoft Teams channel with cards to approve or deny the request

    Note: To start receiving the notifications in the Microsoft Teams channel, the approver must give  Setup  command in their personal Zoho Forms App chat.
  6. Click Preview in the top-right corner of the template to see how the email renders in real time. 
  7. Click Done to save this template.
When the approver approves or denies a request, the card is refreshed and the status of the request is updated in both Outlook and Microsoft Teams channel (if you have chosen to notify in Microsoft Teams).

Note:
  1. When both the Office 365 users and your organization users are added as approvers for the same level, only the Office 365 Users will be notified with this email template.
  2. If you delete this template, Office 365 Users will receive the email that is configured for the organization users.


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