Finally, our approval wizard should be like this. In this course, learn how to create, test, and edit both simple and complex approval flows, and pick up best practices for integrating approval flows into your business. At Contoso, you have a document library that hosts documents for each of your departments – Finance, Legal, and Marketing. Search for, select, and then configure a Start and wait for an approval action that sends the vacation request to the sales team. Gini also demonstrates how Flow integrates with OneDrive, how to share a flow with your team, and how to leverage a few advanced techniques, including creating a parallel approval branch in a flow. They run in sequence by default. Having established which folder the selected file is located in, find the relevant approvers for that folder/department. First, if we need not only to have the manager approve but we also need to have the finance department approve, then we can add that really in one of two places.
This post will introduce parallel branches as a way to achieve concurrent Flow logic. Select the small Insert a new step (+) button below the card (the circular plus button that appears when you hover over the connector arrow). The Approval type, Title and Assigned To fields are required. Watch courses on your mobile device without an internet connection.
In this blog post, we showed you how to send out dynamic parallel approval requests using the new concurrency control settings in for each loops. You will get like this. Now select "Add an action". Your card may resemble this example: steps used to Add an approval action for immediate manager, insert a parallel branch for the sales team. I am the person submitting the leave request. Now, we have to get the manager of the person who approved the first level.
The above mail id will be gotten from the metadata properties shared by the Get manager step. And fill the site address and last name. Now, when you click on a particular flow run you can expand the actions that failed, and see exactly how many automatic retries occurred, as well as the exact details of what happened in that retry. We use these items later to configure the SharePoint - When an item is created trigger. Multiple suggestions found. Create a parallel approval branch in a flow. Then, we have to repeat the Get Manager step as we did before. This will be a 10 days series.
Today, we are announcing that Microsoft Flow supports parallel execution as well: meaning you can have two or more steps that run at the same time, after which the workflow will only proceed once all parallel steps have completed. … We can either get the manager first … and then have the two approvals next to each other … or we could have getting the manager … be part of the manager's approval. Configure the Update item card to suit your needs.
This button is shown here: In the following sections, we add steps within each branch: Then, we use the +New step button to send an email that summarizes all decisions made on the vacation request. With Microsoft Flow, you can streamline your workflow for approving processes and documents for your business. Let’s imagine that you are a SharePoint administrator for the world’s greatest imaginary company, Contoso. You also have a SharePoint list (‘Department Approvers’) that has the approvers for each department. Dan Holme, Patricia Hendricks, and Alyssa Danesh). Before you create the flow, create a SharePoint Online list.
This should send a confirmation mail to me like below. Send an email that informs the employee of the decision.