Accessing File from Parent Flow

[kinzlyb]

I am trying to create an approval flow with built-in reminder emails. The flow is triggered (initially) by a file being added to a SharePoint folder. The issue I'm running into is the fact that I need multiple people to approve in a particular order. To combat this, I've been creating parent/child flows to trigger the next approval flow to run, essentially approval flow 1 happens, then two, and finally three. All these are built with essentially the same information as seen here with the triggers of course being different as you go down the flow.

I need help accessing the original file triggering the first approval flow in the subsequent 2nd and 3rd flows. I've added the input for the child flows to include the file information, this definitely isn't correct:

Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated!

[Pstork1]

Why don't you just pass the file identifier to the child flows and let them use that to retrieve anything they need from the file.  You normally don't need the content of the actual file to do an approval.  You usually just include a link to the file and perhaps some other metadata.

[kinzlyb]

Can you show an example of how to do that?

[Pstork1 · Accepted solution]

Here's an example of the parent flow.  You would add appropriate logic between each sub flow to check whether it should be done or not.

And this is the what the sub flow would look like.  You can use the ID or Identifier to retrieve almost anything you need about the file.

[kinzlyb]

Thank you so much!