Power Automate Approval Workflow Basics 

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You do a great job giving both an overview and detailed explanation and move at a nice quick pace but not too fast. Great job and thanks!

Best intro on approval process out there. Thank you, Reza.

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This " Post your own adaptive card as a flow bot to a user" is a new thing i got to know. Amazing work Reza ✌ thanks for this content. I appreciate it.

As usual, very detailed explanation, I learned quite a few tricks, thanks again Reza and keep them coming.

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really well done, I have been tinkering with this for the last week and you have really expanded the potential of the workflow I was developing. thanks a lot

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This has been a huge help this week! Connor has been learning approval workflows

Hi Reza, thanks! I’ve learned a lot from most of your videos including this one. I will definitely apply this in my current project. Thanks so much!

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This was so amazing and helped me figure out why my flow stopped after the first EVERYONE must approve. I didn't know to put the condition to Does Not Contain Reject - that made all the difference. Thank you so much for a great video and all the explanations!!

WOW.. great video!!! Can't wait to try this. I've been looking for something like this for some time now.... flow approvals with multiple users and various ways to approve. The final piece to it is to get approvals from users outside of my organization which would be my clients.

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why are you proving us wrong? i thought i know the basics.. but requestor, reassign and differences between 'create an approval task' and 'start and wait for approval task', approval via Teams adaptive card. i will be well prepared for the next video :D..very informative and as always you are my favorite teacher :)

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Helpful! Thanks for sharing, I will look for the other parts of this series now.

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Great, great series of videos. One question: assume we have a list of approvers that will approve sequentially (i.e. one after the other). Also assume that this list is dynamic (e.g. stored in SharePoint and configurable for each item to be approved). How would you design the flow with respect to the "sequential" nature of approvals ? TIA

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Very very good explained

Thanks for such a good explanation. But I wonder if you were creating videos on only this approvals type only.. or if there any other could you please share those as well it would be really awesome 😊

Brillant, it helps a lot

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Amazing video! Thank you so much. I see that the approvers are receiving their notifications in parallel. How do we change this to sequential? Would you mind making a video to explain and demonstrate this?

Well explained

Excellent video, please do a video on how to track responses to an approval while it's still outstanding.

Hi Reza. Thanks for your tutorial. I am actually working on a project to automate Microsoft forms responses to approvals. Was wondering whether you have a video on that?

Nice video! Can you create a tutorial of Flow Approval but the approvers are depending on a SharePoint list? Usually, I am creating approval inside of Power Apps and now I am planning that they have two options of approval. One is they can approve inside Power Apps or they can approve on outlook. Thanks, Reza. Always brings informative and helpful videos.

Excellent Reza... I found the right RU-vidr on power automate... Q. Can we track responses from approvers automatically in excel online somewhere for the purpose of summary?

I've learned a ton. I just have to slow down the video to 3/4 speed.

very helpful

This is what i'm looking for

Thanks for this very informative video Reza. Your videos have been very helpful 😊. Is there a way to use these Adaptive Cards on the Approvals email to Outlook?

Thanks Reza, thanks for sharing the best videos out there on PowerAutomate and PowerApps. I get why the Apply to Each loop appears when using responder/displayName for dynamic content. However, once the Apply to Each loop is present, then no further step can see the values place in my History field - this makes creating a comprehensive list of history strings add up over the course of my flow. Is there a way to get to the history of an Apply to Each loop? I've tried to create a call to avoid the For Each loop, using "first(outputs('Start_and_wait_for_approval')?['responder/displayName'])" but then it tells me that it can't select. Next I try just "outputs('Start_and_wait_for_Water_Doc_approval').body[0].responder[0].displayName" and it can't select because, I believe, the array hasn't yet been created.

That was great. Very clear to follow. Thanks so much Reza. Are the next installments still coming in relation to attachments etc.

Thankyou, great tutorial.

Great stuff Reza, thank you! I am having trouble adding the attachments to the flow, any pointers?

Hi Reza- Amazing tutorial. Just a question- the attachment tutorials are covered in which video?

Thankyou! very clear explaination and easily understandable video..👌it would be great if you slow down your teaching speed tempo a little. where can i get your complete power automate course?

Great tutorial Reza and thanks. Only I don't get the comment box while approving from email. When I click approve it opens up my approval dashboard.

Hello, I'm new to Power Automate. Do you have a video walking through the steps to create a non-hierarchical, sequential approval? If not a video, do you have a document with the screen shots that show each step as they would appear, from start to finish?

Hi Reza, your videos are awesome. Will it work if you change the approval type from 'first to respond' to 'everyone must approve' or will it break the flow that has more downstream actions that reference it?

Great video, one question though, having cases where users are being redirected to the Flow homepage when trying to approve, how to make sure that they can submit their approvals from their inbox itself when using desktop?

Thanks so much. It very useful. Could you show how to add a link or basic information into approval detail?

Thank you for this! We want to implement this but the question is, do all the approvers need to have a Power Automate license for this? Or does a normal O365 E3 license work?

Awesome! Thank you Reza! I need your advice, : 1. I try to attach a document from Sharepoint and send this through Flow to approve but when i open the attachment it appears as error (in the approval email). 2. Is it possible to store the changes made in the document ( and save them in the sharepoint using Flow? Thank you again for ur time!

It is really a great video..thank you for providing this..I have a query in power automate..how to deal situations which takes more than 30 days to take action in my approvals where flow instance will be retained for only 30 days..

Hi Reza, thank you for your helpful tutorials! I recently started using Power Automate with a colleague and we learned a lot of your tips. Currently we need help with an "everyone has to approve" flow. We have implemented a timeout at the "wait for an approval" step (10 days). After the timeout, a reminder email should be sent to all approvers who have not yet responded. We don't know how to read out the intermediate status in an ongoing approval (everyone must approve). The outcome or response summary is only available when the approval flow is fully completed. Because we are limited with the number of APIs (Office 365 E1 license) and also for other reasons, we only want to work with the approval type "everyone must approve". Is there a way to read out the information about „who has approved so far“ in an ongoing approval flow? Thanks in advance! Greetings from Germany Alex

Hello Reza.. Big fan. I wonder if its possible for you to demonstrate any example using power apps to track all incoming and ourgoing email? Specifically if its possible to track if a received email has been responded?

Great video! Is it possible to choose the recipient user/email ID dynamically? We have a scenario where an approved can change depending on the requesting user or circumstance. Please advise…

Great stuff.. what if i also want to capture additional metadata from an approver... not just comments and the status. Let's say I want the approver to select an item from a drop down or enter some date/time field.. is that possible?

Thank you for your great training videos! I would like to know if there is a way to remove the default "Cancel Request" button on the approvals screen presented through MS Teams. This button does not appear in approvals sent through the Outlook email. User choosing this "Cancel Request" button will skip over the Approval section of my MS-Flow workflow which I'd like to avoid. Is there any way to remove this default "Cancel Request" button? Thanks!

Thanks for this tutorial. What if want to ask for more details before approving or rejecting the request?

Hi Reza, thanks so much for all your tutorials regarding approvals and power automate, really appreciate. One thing I would like to know about MS Team approval tempalate, could we able to use power automate to get Team approval template content with attachment, approvers and approval status to be populated in sharepoint list? Though I can get tempalate content (which is in term of Forms), but cannot get the attachment, approvers(input by Team member independently) and approval status that sumbitted by members in the Team, may I know if there is any way to get them by using power automate so that whenever member submit one approval template, details ans approval result can be populated in sharepoint list? Thanks in advance.

Hi, thanks for making knowledgeable videos. I have started using power apps in my office. I need a little help. I have used share point list to track project opportunities. I want to create a flow where once I assign a list item to user an email notification should be sent to that user. How can I do that

nice video well explained, By the way one doubt for this set up if we want premium licensing?

Good explanation, how about if someone is sending in purchase order request ?

This is great, How can I do the same thing where Details woud be (Passing the paramaters from powerapps FORM and some dropdown values), however SP should not be updated. Thank You for your help.

I like to follow along with the video. Is this demo started from blank (which one) or one of the approver templates?

Hi Reza, This is wonderful information. I have one question if there is a way that i can create approvals for thousands of records in one go (by loading a file) and then wait for the approval/ response to come in to further update it back in the system. I tried separating creating an approval and then wait for approval but then in wait for approval, can;t see the approver id

Thanks for your great Video. The problem that i have now is, that if the user approves first and then fill the adapative card and send the response back, the workflow produces an error (There's an error in your flow preventing the creation of Approvals. Use the link below to learn more about the errors with your flow and/or environment configuration.). If i first respond with the adaptive card and approve as last step, everything works fine.

Thanks Reza, this video is great for beginner. But I found the approval email is not allowed customisation like changing the created by user and created date time zone which confused the approver. Also the details in the approval email also too messy in its look. See how could this be improved and do you have any idea of this?

Hey Reza, In the approval process power automate tool, it is possible to notify five people, however, two people approve and proceed further.

Hey there! Nice video! I'v an doubt, about the approval process in power automate, is possible works with the field of approver empty. For example, i'v 2 step of approval, but i wnat that the second step only be tarted when the first step of approval is equal "approve or empty". Its possible?

thanks so much for the video, I was wondering what should we do in the case where we have 4 people that can approve or reject and we are only waiting for at least one approval out of these four for the process to move on. So for example, if the first one from those people rejects and then the second person approves and i don't want to wait for the other 2 people to give their answers for the approval process to be over?

HI Reza, could you tell me more about the attachments, how it works inside the Start and wait approval?

It is a very very nice tutorial. Can you please explain how we can revert the request to the requester or one level back to change something in the request. And also need more clarity on reassigning the approvals

Hey Reza, thanks for videos. I have question. I need from approver input and based on his input some sharepoin column will be updated. IS IT possible or there IS only output approver comment? Thank you

Hi Reza, Do you have a tutorial that when I create an approval using build Teams app, using a custom model, it will be sent the approvals embed to the email of that person for that the person can approve from the e-mail and control the approvals on e-mail instead of historical being only inside the teams app only. In short, I want to use the approvals application within the teams, create my custom template and create the approval and that, in addition, an email is sent so that the recipient can approve it by email (if he wants ) . And after approval, the flow is the same as it already exists in the teams approval app. I noticed that in the Teams app there is no option to send by email either. As you explain in the video. I wanted just that. Cheers from Brazil.

It's a very informative video. May I ask is there any way we can send the approval request to approvers in an order. I would like to send a request to approver-A(wait for response) -if it's approved it sends to Approver B and so on. I hope it can be done in different "start and wait for approval" request it's lengthier, but is it possible to include that in a single "start and wait for approval" and it follows an order Thanks