Title: The “Submit for Approval” button may have been missing in SharePoint Online libraries with content approval enabled
User impact: Users’ “Submit for Approval” button may have been missing in SharePoint Online libraries with content approval enabled.
More info: Affected users may have seen the “Submit for Approval” button missing in SharePoint Online libraries with content approval turned on, preventing users from submitting documents for approval.
Final status: We’ve successfully reverted the aforementioned change and confirmed that the issue is no longer occurring after conducting a testing period.
Scope of impact: Impact was specific to any user who was served through the affected infrastructure attempting to submit documents for approval.
Start time: Wednesday, March 6, 2024, at 6:00 PM UTC
End time: Tuesday, March 12, 2024, at 11:25 AM UTC
Root cause: A recent service update, intended to improve the overall experience of the Publish Item Command for document libraries, inadvertently caused the “Submit for Approval” button in SharePoint Online libraries to be missing.
Next steps:
– We’re reviewing our code and service update procedures to help understand why the “Submit for Approval” button became absent, in order to help prevent similar problems in the future.
This is the final update for the event.
