With the flow I'm working on, i'm trying to send approvals out to several ppl to view a users entries full weeks entries. For example I've separated the stages from G1, G2, G3 and G4. 1st stage G1 views the submitted entries and approves it, then once it shows on the list it's been approved the next flow takes places for G2 to view and approve till they get to G4. The flow should be that "when a item is created, start and wait for approvals, if G1 is blank and G2 is blank, then the email is sent out for G1 to view the entries and to approve, if it's the case that G2 has been filled then that means there's an error somewhere cause G2 can't be filled till G1 staged is completed). This will go on till G4. I will be creating separate flows for this to make it easier to maintain.
First flow will be from G1 - G2
2nd Flow: G2 - G3
3rd Flow: G3 - G4
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Hi @SandraAkujobi ,
true instead of True.
Please mark the question as solved.
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I would build this as a single flow. There is no reason to split it up into 4 flows. Here's the general process.
It would be better that way, but to maintain it in the long run that was my only reason with going with that method. I could still the way you said.
But now it's to create the flow, so how would that come about, basically I've done this much;
The thing is that, I'm not getting an email stating to approve or reject, but instead the flow works as it send and email that the item had not been approved, which makes no sense as I didn't receive an email prior to that to choose approve/reject. Even if it sends an email that it has been rejected on the list itself it doesn't automatically update and state that it was rejected.
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YOu don't need the condition to check for G1 or G2, etc. When the flow starts send the approval for G1. When that returns check the outcome. If Approved then send G2. If not, terminate the flow or do whatever you want to do when the flow is rejected. Do the same for the other stages. The only way to reach G2 then is that G1 was approved.
I've worked on the flow for G1 approval and it works but the only issue is that it's not displaying on the list that it's been approved, so that's the G1 column on my list. Also if I was to add all those stages/flows onto this one flow how would I do that, would be after the G1 flow has been approved what action should I add next for G2.
The approval action doesn't change anything on the list. You have to do an update acton to store the approval in whatever field you've setup.
To add the others, you add the G2 to the yes side of the G1 approval, then add G3 to the yes side of the G2 approval and so on
Yes I know that, I've included the update action in my flow, but it still doesn't update the column.
Hi @SandraAkujobi ,
Could you please share a screenshot of the configuration of your current flow?
Could you please share the run history of your flow?
Please refer to screenhsot below to create the flow:
And you could add a condition under the Start an wait for an approval 2 action to check if it is approved by the G2 as the previous steps.
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So I've done exactly what you've posted and it's basically the same format as my own flow and it's still not displaying the approval status on the SharePoint List.
Below is the screenshot of the flow;
Hi @SandraAkujobi ,
Please enter the ID dynamic content from the trigger to the Id field in the Update item action.
And the status would be updated in the G1 field if the Update item action run successfully.
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I've done that and it's still the same, I tried different dynamic content field just to see if the issue lay with the ID dynamic content but its didn't help at all cause at the end it still didn't display the status of the submission.
Hi @SandraAkujobi ,
Has the "Update item" action run in your flow.
Could you please share the run history of the "Update item" action?
Please share the run history of your flow so we could better understand the issue?
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The flow has ran successfully, so that's why this is so confusing to me. Anyways I've taken a screenshot of the flow and yes I can definitely see that there as some issues within the flow, but why did it run successfully?
In condition 2 you can see that the expression displays "false", I have no idea why that is like so. But these are images displaying the issue.
It ran successfully because the actions were skipped due to not meeting conditions rather than failing from an error. Essentially it ran successfully, but didn't do anything.
Hi @SandraAkujobi ,
The Condition in your flow has run into If no branch so the Update item action has skipped in your flow, the Update item haven't run in your flow.
Do you want to check if the G1 column is empty in your Condition?
If yes, you should check if the empty(G1dynamic content) is equal to true as screenshot below:
The first expression in the Condition:
empty(outputs('Compose'))
The second expression in the Condition:
empty(outputs('Compose_2'))
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So with the example you sent,m I tried it but the fail failed, below are the two images that display that. I think it had something to do with the "greater than" in the condition2 for G1.
The second time I tried and changed the "greater than" to "is equals to", then the flow ran successfully but it wasn't updating the list, also I'm not getting an email stating to approve or reject.
Hi @SandraAkujobi ,
The start and wait for an approval action would only run whn the result of the Condition is equal to true and run in to the If yes branch of the condition, however , your condition is run into if no branch.
What is the Type of the G1 column in your list?
Could you please make sure:
1. Create the G1 and G2 column in your sharepoint with single line of text type.
2. When create an item to the sharepoint list, leave the G1 and G2 column blank, don't enetr anything to the G1 and G2 column,please make sure.
3.The flow would run, and please make sure you have refered to my screenshot to create the flow. and if your flow still don't work, please share the full screenshot of the flow, the full screenshot of the error message, the screenshot of the item in the sharepoint list with me for troubleshootin your flow.
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Alice
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Hi @v-alzhan-msft everything you've listed I've done it all.
Below are the screenshots related to the flow.
This is my SharePoint with the G1-G4 column all blank.
This are screenshots of the flow, as you can see it says the flow has run successfully, but nothing happened, also I didn't get an email stating to approve or reject an approval.
Can you provide a screenshot of the formulas you are using in Condition 2? Since that is evaluating to false none of the rest of your flow that sends the email is running.
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