Power Automate approval action is picking a different approver email from Sharepoint List column

[KG2790]

Objective of my flow is to create a log/record of Manager’s approval for a their team member to get a user account created on one of the systems used by the company. This record is created in the form of SP list which can be exported to excel and is required for audit purposes.

My flow are two separate flows
1. Starts with a user filling out a Form that updates details and creates an item on a sharepoint list
2. When a new item is created on this same SP list, the power automate flow trigger
Details of the Form include Approving Manager’s email id

2nd Flow needs to pick up this email id from the Share point list column containing Approving manager email id.

It is working great , However, sometimes the flows it is picking up a manger email id which is not from the same item row created, it is randomly picking a different email Id from the column , so approval requests for a new user is going to a different manager not the one they entered in Forms'

Questions :

1. How do I get approval flow to pick the 'Approver email id' from the SP column of the same item ? the column is set as 'single line of text' and ideally i would want to use the dynamic content field directly into the 'Assigned to' field . is that possible ?

2.Do i need to merge the two flows ?

Screenshot of the flow design (approvals)

[v-chenzhi · Accepted solution]

Hi @KG2790 ,

Is your process like this?

User submits an application in the MSForm --> create a new item in Sharepoint --> Approve --> Update Sharepoint item.

If so, you could merge the two flows. I have a test for your reference, please try the following workaround.

[KG2790]

thank you so much