Sending email with options to multiple people

[Wosscr]

Hey guys,

I’m building a flow that requires to get approval from some users. There are different options that the approver can select, so I’m using the “send email with options” which is working fine.

The problem I have is for items that require approval from multiple people, I put the “send email with options” within an “apply to each” loop that receives an array with all the emails that need to be sent. All good until that point, but when the action is triggered, the flow will send one email at the time and wait until the first person takes action (complete the flow) to send the next one which is not ideal.

Tha other alternative that I have is to send the email to multiple users at once, but that won’t allow me to track each individual response.

Any ideas to work that around?

Thanks

[v-bacao-msft]

Hi @Wosscr,

Do you want multiple approvers to participate in the approval process, the approval email needs to be sent at the same time, and you want to track the approver selection?

I did the test on my side, and indeed, as you described, the mail is sent in order, and the previous recipient needs to complete the approval.

I have tried many methods and there seems to be no suitable way to achieve your needs.

Best Regards,

Barry

[eskward]

If I understand your scenario correctly, I believe there is an answer for that. If you use the ellipsis menu on the Loop action and go to 'Settings', you can adjust the 'degree of parallelism' to allow mulitple instances of the loop to run concurrently.

Here's a reference with screenshots:

https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/advanced-flow-of-the-week-send-parallel-approval-requests-to-a...

I think this accomplishes what you need.

[Wosscr · Accepted solution]

Hi @eskward,

Thanks for your answer. I tried the loop option already, the iterations work, but the recipient of the email was not updated (even though the variable was) so the email was sent multiple times to the same recipient on a random basis. 

I ended up implementing an approval flow with a separate form, and using the regular "send email" component with the link to that second form. 

Regards

[ColinM]

Hi, 

Has anyone tried this or something like this using dynamic variable content?  

I am trying to send an email with options to a dynamic number of emails separately as its own question where I would then record the specific answer.  I would like to pass the dynamic content from PowerApps and receive the answers from Power Automate. The dynamic questions work but Flow sends a single email to all addressees and records only a single response. 

Any thoughts are much appreciated.