Creating Multi-level Approval Flows in Power Automate | Serial or Parallel

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This tutorial will demonstrate how to use Power Automate to build multi-level approval flows. You have the choice to create a serial approval where the flow will route the approval to each one at a time in the order specified. Or you can create a Parallel approval where multiple people get an approval request at the same time. Of course, you can blend the approach and start with a parallel approval then add in a serial element later in the flow. I will show you some basic examples to get you started.
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@HeatherMajors 2 года назад

While filming I clicked in the wrong place and accidentally caused an error in the flow that was caught by testing the flow. Always test your flow 😊

@DanHansen-cw7if Месяц назад

This is a fantastic video - thank you!

@HeatherMajors Месяц назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@mohamedmosaad1636 Месяц назад

This is a fantastic video , thank you for your effort.

@HeatherMajors Месяц назад

Glad you found the video valuable.

@atalders 8 месяцев назад

This is fantastic - very helpful!

@HeatherMajors 8 месяцев назад

Glad it was helpful!

@j.bagalay1623 6 месяцев назад

Hello Healther, thanks for this video.. this is exactly what i needed right now.. however, would also like to know or if you have already created a video about Power Apps. So the context is, i created a form thru Power Apps (SharePoint is also a repository) and i have a multi level approval (for Manager and Sr. Manager) how would i do this in PowerApps?thank you

@HeatherMajors 6 месяцев назад

HI I have one basic video about Power Apps. To be honest, I never did learn that much about the tool. Just enough to demonstrate a basic use case at work. Here is the link just in case it will help ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FAaGnDg9ozA.html

@imeldab2 5 месяцев назад

Thank you for this. I tried your example on an approval list I'm working on but new "Apply to each" keep automatically getting added. Then I get "ActionFailed. An action failed. No dependent actions succeeded.". These show up after I add the update item actions. Process runs but now with errors. Any ideas?

@HeatherMajors 5 месяцев назад

Without knowing exactly what you typed in each field my best guess for when I have seen "no depended actions succeeded" is that there is a case sensitive field that is not matched from Power Automate to the List where the data goes. For example, if the list says "Supervisor" and the flow says "supervisor" the fact that the S is capitalized in one place and not the other often results in that error you described.

@imeldab2 5 месяцев назад

@@HeatherMajors Is this also still the best way to create parallel approvals with 2 approvers using a SharePoint list? I hadn't touched Power Automate in 2.5 years and now there is the new version that's different. Makes it hard to follow along. Even when I switched to Classic and tried it, it kept adding new "Apply to each" again. Would love to see an updated video but I know you're busy.

@HeatherMajors 5 месяцев назад

@@imeldab2 no you do have a valid point and I have been trying to work in an updated video. To be totally transparent I haven’t tried to create this flow recently since my old one is still working based on your comments I see you totally get that this is a side project and my full-time job takes up a lot of my time, thank you for bringing the idea back to the top of my attention

@patriciaa.martin8069 Год назад

Hello - how did you get Supervisor's name to be in the dynamic content?

@HeatherMajors Год назад

Patricia, in this example the supervisor names is a required entry on the list when someone asks for time off. I have a column that my employees must fill out using a people picker. Then I pulled the info in from the list via dynamic content. In theory you can use the Office 365 users and get managers but our org never sets up the charts correctly so it does not work well. I gave up and made people type the names in.

@patriciaa.martin8069 Год назад

@@HeatherMajors ah ok that make sense. I am trying to create a sequential change request approval flow. The single flow is working great. Any suggestions or videos where you show how to do this? Thanks

@HeatherMajors Год назад

Hi Patricia, this is the only video I have that talks about the serial or parallel approvals. When I am looking to learn about Power Automate I go to April Dunnam's channel. Here is a link where I put in the query Approval ru-vid.comsearch?query=approval. I keep saying I am going to learn more about Power Automate but I support 32 applications at work and have not got much beyond the I can do a few things phase 🙂

@mustafahussainmohsin320 Год назад

Great view and nice explanations but what if I have 10 approvers and if one of them rejects (1) The flow should start again

@HeatherMajors Год назад

Hi, in that case I would experiment with the approval action of everyone must approve. I use first to reply in videos because it is the simplest way to demonstrate a process. But when you use the "everyone" option the flow will not progress until you get all approvals.

@mustafahussainmohsin320 Год назад

@@HeatherMajors Yes, but I have to make 10 people approvals and if anyone of them rejects it should restart again.. is it possible?

@HeatherMajors Год назад

You can run the flow again if someone rejects in the approval chain but what I was saying is it might have to be a manual restart, which is probably a good idea anyway. Since I don't know you exact business process I would imagine it goes like this: Someone submits an item for approval and it goes to 10 people. 1 person rejects the item for a valid reason which they should identify. The person who submits the item would then need to fix whatever caused the rejection. Now they will resubmit the item and it goes back to the same 10 people for them to make sure the item meets whatever the standard is. I would not think it is a good idea to automatically restart the flow because whatever caused the rejection will still be the same document or request on an infinite loop.

@mustafahussainmohsin320 Год назад

@@HeatherMajors Yes absolutely,you are saying truth.. my process is something like that what you have explained Miss Heather.. The user will then fix the item and then updates the item and then it will be sent again to those 10 approvers so if the 4th one rejects then the user will have to update it again and it will sent back to 10 I think the client wants something like that.. If you have an email I could contact you there.. if you don't mind..

@jbj2256 Год назад

how to create multi level approval using MS Form when an item created

@HeatherMajors Год назад

Hi, you are on the right track, but the trigger for Forms is When a new response is submitted. Then you will need to get response details so you can use the details of the form in your process. I am not sure what info you are gathering or what approvals you need so from there you will have to decide where to route the Forms data and then get the approval.