Maintaining Approval status after restoring list items from recycle bin

Question

I have recycled list items using powershell method $deletedGuid = $item.recycle(). After recycling, I have restored items from recycle bin again using poershell method $site.RecycleBin.Restore($deletedGuid) script. But after restoring, I see that all restored items have approval status as pending, why is that? Why the items did not maintained their approval status as before recycling? I remember that some of the items have status as Approved and some have staus as Draft before recycling

Is there any possibility to maintain approval status of recycled items?

Answer 1

I believe there isn't as the Restore() function is almost equal to "Add new item". You could have a calculated hidden field which would store the Approval Status. During the restore you could check the value of that column and set Approval Status according to that.