Review Activity (RA) Approval Condition is Changing

Hello everyone,
I am running SCSM 2012 R2 version 7.5.3079.0 (no CUs). I am having an odd issue where it seems as though the approval condition is changing on review activities. I can't seem to figure out if I've done something or if there is something else
going on. This is causing some tickets to "stall" and not actually get processed or is delaying actual approvals.
So as an example, the person who originally designed the system put an Automatic Approval Review Activity at the beginning of every SR. In the template, the Approval Condition was set to Automatic and there were no reviewers. All of a sudden
a reviewer with no name would show up and the approval condition would become unanimous. I since removed that RA.
Now there is a similar issue I am finding on my Change Requests (CRs). I have only done three as we are basically doing dry runs before we convert off our old system. In my template, I have a review activity that has the six members of our
change approval board as reviewers. The members rarely change so I saw no reason to make this dynamic. The template has the stage set to Approve with an Approval Condition set for Percentage. The threshold is 66% or 4 of the 6 reviewers.
At some point, the approval condition was changed to unanimous. If I look at the history of the RA, I can see where the activity was created and it says Approval Percentage 66. The RA went from Pending to In Progress and then about a minute later,
the approval condition and percentage changed. The name on that time entry is just one of my service accounts.
If it helps...here is that process that the CR template follows
Automatic Review Activity, which has not been an issue so far.
Runbook Automation Activity - Updates some fields on the CR with information based on fields. Also modifies the reviewer in the next step to be the Business Owner of a system.
Business Owner Approval Review Activity - Template is set to unanimous and has one blank reviewer that is updated by the previous runbook.
Change Approval Board Review Activity - Explained above.
Runbook Automation Activity - Converts the Change Request to a Release Record.
I appreciate any and all assistance that someone could provide.

This is a common issue.... try restarting the following three services: Microsoft Monitoring Agent, System Center Data Access Service, System Center Management Service and deleting your health service cache (Installation Folder/Health Service State) (it
will regenerate once you restart the services)

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for example we have simple service request with review and manual activity in it, if someone approves review activity, AssignedTo user of service request needs to be notified.

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Frequently used basic classes filter to Combination classes then enter 'Service Request' in the filter field.
Pick the Service Request and Activity class.
Now when configuring the criteria, you'll notice a little arrow next to the
Service Request class. Click on this arrow to expand the node, and select the
Contains Activity class.
Under the Available properties box, enter 'Status' in the search field. In my environment, I got two Status fields. Each corresponds to a specific Activity class. Select both of them and click
Add.
One of the Criteria will look like 'Contains Activity[Activity]Status'. Keep this one and delete the other from the Criteria box. Change the value to 'Completed'
While we're at it, select the Service Request class and add a criteria for the Service Request Status = 'In Progress'.
Click on the Display tab and select whatever fields you want to display in this view. Click
OK to save this view.
Now go to the Administration workspace and select the
Management Packs node. Export your management pack that contains your view and open the management pack in a text file viewer. Notepad++ works for me...
First search for the string that you used to name your view. It will be found towards the bottom of the MP in a DisplayString element in the LanguagePacks XML element. This element will have an ElementID.
Select the ElementID and search the entire file for this string. You want the instance that resides within a Presentation | Views | View element. From this point, scroll down until you get to a Criteria element. Within the Criteria element you will find
the two Expressions that were entered via the GUI. One of the Expressions corresponds to the Service Request.Status=In Progress criteria, the other corresponds to the Activity.Status=In Progress criteria. We will be changing the Activity criteria so that it
explicitly refers to a Manual Activity.
Identify the Expression that has the Property containing the string 'System.WorkItemContainsActivity'. We will be changing the TypeConstraint attribute of this criteria.
In this line, Replace the string 'System.WorkItem.Activity' with 'System.WorkItem.Activity.ManualActivity'
Save this file and import the management pack into SCSM

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