Does SharePoint allow to Approve/Reject non-pending items

I am confused on the behaviour SharePoint is handling content approval, as sometimes it will hide the Approve/Reject links if the item status is not pending. While on some senarios it will allow to Approve/Reject items regardless of their statuses. Let
for example examine these two senarions.
I have a document library and I set “Require content approval for submitted item” under its versioning settings.
Now when users access the page , the “Approve/Reject” links will be disabled unless the page status is pending. For example this is an approved page and the “Apprve/Reject” links are disabled:-
However this is not always true, because if I access the same page but from this location “Site content>>Library”, select the page, from the drop-down menu there will be “Approve/Reject” link for the same page:-
So this means that there is inconsistency behavior inside SharePoint , as for the same item it will disabled “Approve/Reject” link while on other places it will enable them (as shown above),, so can anyone advice on this please , and if there is a reason
behind this ?

Hi John,
I tested the same scenario per your post, and I got the same results as you got.
It seems that this issue occurs with lists and wiki pages libraries.
We will help to submit the issue to proper pipeline for you.
Again, thank you for your report which will definitely make SharePoint a better products. There might be some time delay.
Appreciate your time and patience.
As a workaround, you can code to achieve what you want which is not an easy way.
You can use client object model to get the current selected items and check the _ModerationStatus of the items.
If the _ModerationStatus is equal to 0 (which means approved in SharePoint) or 1(which means rejected in SharePoint), then disable the Approve/Reject button.
In the meanwhile, you need to monitor the ribbon if the Files has been opened.
More references:
http://spdailytips.blogspot.jp/2011/08/get-selected-items-javascript-client.html
http://ranaictiu-technicalblog.blogspot.jp/2011/02/sharepoint-2010-approvereject-content.html
Best regards.
Thanks
Victoria Xia
TechNet Community Support

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