Power Automate Part 12 – Approvals

By Andy Brown

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This video shows how you how to create an approvals process. For our example when someone adds a film to a suggested watch list, you (or someone else) will be able to accept or reject the recommendation, giving your reasons. This acceptance or rejection (with the corresponding reason) will be flagged in SharePoint and the person who added the film will receive a notification of the result.

Chapters
00:00 Topic list
01:11 Our example – suggestions for the Wise Owl film club
03:59 A demonstration of the final system before we start
06:26 Creating the SharePoint list and Excel workbook
09:49 Creating the action to wait for approval
13:17 Adding a condition to test the outcome
15:28 What happens if the film is rejected
20:07 Testing the rejection path
22:49 What happens if the film is accepted
26:48 Testing the acceptance path
28:46 Managing flows in Power Automate
31:10 Creating custom responses

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