Simple Approval Design For Model-Driven Apps

Do you know the In-App Notification feature from Model Driven Apps? This feature can create a notification that targeted a specific User. We also can add action to the notification so the User can also interact with multiple actions (now is limited to just an open URL). In short, this feature is very useful for creating the Approval process. Without further ado, let’s go to my proposed solution!

The Necessary Part

I created the below table for this demonstration purpose:

As you can see, the User will fill in the Approver that needs to approve the request. Then in the status field, there are 3 options which are Draft, Approved, or Rejected.

For the next one, you need to create a Model-Driven App. The reason for it is because we need to turn on the feature from the Settings (in top-left from the App > go…