Sp-dev-docs: Process for setting "SingleWebPartAppPage" doesn't work when page approval is enabled

[raymondlittle100]

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Expected or Desired Behavior

I have a SharePoint site which uses the new page approval for managing changes to content. In the same site I have a web part on a page which is set as a single app page, see link below. I should be able to use single app pages in sites where page approval is setup

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/spfx/web-parts/single-part-app-pages

Observed Behavior

Currently you need to run a PS script or run JS in the console to update the page layout but as soon as you do that the page approval option disappears. This means you can't publish a page which is a single app because the UI option isn't there. Even if you setup the page and approve it as soon as you run the script to change the layout back to single app it puts the page back as a draft

Steps to Reproduce

Create SP site
Enable page approval flow
Create a page
Add web part
Run script to set new page as single app page

There is now no way to trigger the approval on the single app page and if you go to site pages you can click "Submit for approval" but it simply takes you to the page and there is no option available

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[patmill]

Can you simply go to the list view and approve the page?

[raymondlittle100]

When trying to approve via the edit control block it just seemed to re-direct to the page. I'll test again and see

[raymondlittle100]

Tried again and got the following

and when clicking on "Submit for approval" it takes me to the page in a new tab, see below

There is no option to edit the page or submit/approve

[raymondlittle100]

Any other details on this?

[VesaJuvonen]

We are looking into fixing this as part of the 1.8 (GA) version of the capability.

[GrahamMcMynn]

With release of 1.8 (GA) you will create an app page as a new page and won't run into this approval issue.

[raymondlittle100]

Do we have a date for this?

[VesaJuvonen]

In a matter of days rather than weeks.

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