Approvals for Confluence

UPDATE: Thanks for your reply, Himal! I did not notice the hover timestamp feature - I think it's awesome. I'll reach out regarding the rest. Thanks! Really like this app and want to use it, but I can only give 2 stars because of so much missing functionality. As part of this macro, I would want: 1) a timestamp in the table 2) ability to indicate in the table exactly what it is that's being approved. 3) ability to make approvers conditional (if Abe approved, then Ben no longer needs to approve). 4) more control and transparency into the email reminders or prompts that approvers are receiving. We don't want to spam our stakeholders and not even realize we're doing it. My org makes detailed product requirements documents which may require approval of several different concepts, lines of copy, designs, etc. Including a column for WHAT was approved (rather than the page in its entirety) would be extremely helpful!

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  AppFox

  Hi Misty,

  Thanks for your review, I'm glad you like the app. I would like to provide some suggestions that could perhaps be of help relating to your review:

  • The timestamp of when the approver approved can be checked by hovering over the status lozenge.
  • This relates to point number 2 and the last paragraph that you wrote, the title of the macro can be used to describe what the item to approve is. Multiple macros can be added on the same page with different titles to specify different items to be approved.
  • Relating to point number 3, would you be looking for, let's say, if one person approves then the rest does not need to? Or would you like more customisation that allows you to customise the condition for each specific person?
  • Relating to point number 4, we completely agree that the email feature needs to have more control, customisation and transparency.

  We are planning a new release and definitely would like to talk further about implementing these features as part of that. Please feel free to contact me on himal.gurung@automation-consultants.com to continue the discussion.

  Thanks,

  Himal

Great app !, it would be helpful as well if : - the page's current version number is printed at the comment after all the approvers approve the page - to be able to see a list with all the approved page versions Nice work,

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  AppFox

  Hi Evangelos,

  It’s great to hear from you, thank you for taking the time to review our App!

  We know it’s been a while but with time comes new versions and new features, and the good news is this time has allowed us to implement your requests. Approvals now has a dedicated Approvals History feature that allows you to see everything you’ve asked for in one place.

  We love to hear about any new features you think may work so please don’t hesitate to get in touch with the team. We’re always here to help.

  All the Best,

  Laura

Please add group approval!

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  AppFox

  Hi Anton,

  Thank you for taking the time to explore Approvals and review us, it’s really appreciated!

  We’re happy to say that a feature like that does now exist and it’s called Approvals Team which we hope will make group approvals a lot simpler for you.

  Please don't hesitate to get in touch with the team if there's any more we can help you with or the odd question/App feature request pops into your head. We're always here to help.

  All the Best,

  Laura

A good concept and much needed in Confluence for anyone wanting to provide a level of Gatekeeping for release of information. Works well up to that point, with options on Email notifications and comments. Put into the context of process control, and ISO's beloved 'Plan, Do, Check, Act' cycle, this macro is targeted at the 'Check' stage so you need to be able to 'act' after checking. The default setting is to 'Expire on page edit', so that needs to be changed each time. Also, the default for comments needs to be changed to enable them if you want a record of approval independent of the macro itself (I recommend this because of a recent incident where the old Confluence editor failed to display the macro - most examples had approval recorded in the comments too so were safe. Some did not.) Still, it remains the best of the options for a small company to build a degree of version control (as opposed to version recording) into their Confluence pages

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  AppFox

  Hi Ian,

  Thank you, we really appreciate you taking the time to review our App!

  We're glad that you like the concept and its suitability. We're always looking to improve Approvals for Confluence and we've got several exciting features coming up that we can't wait for you to try out!

  Regarding the reset, could you please open a ticket in our service desk with more details? We are keen to look into this for you.

  Kind regards,

  Himal

Very good app and very helpful and kind service. It has (almost) all the functionalities I need while it is still simple enough and very intuitive. I like best that it works well will Confluences native features such as versioning and change history.