Advanced Approval Workflows in Power Platform: Multi-Stage and Conditional Approvals

Advanced Approval Workflows in Power Platform: Multi-Stage and Conditional Approvals

Learn how to implement advanced approval workflows in Microsoft Power Platform to support complex business processes with greater control and flexibility.
This video explores the NEW Advanced Approvals feature in agent flows, highlighting how organizations can design structured, multi-stage approval flows with conditional logic for smarter decision-making.

🔍 In this video, you will learn how to:
✔️ Understand the capabilities of advanced approvals
✔️ Configure multi-stage approval flows involving multiple stakeholders
✔️ Implement conditional logic to route, skip, or terminate approvals based on defined criteria
✔️ Set up approval stages and inputs to support dynamic flow behavior

🚀 Demo Highlights: Built on SharePoint for travel request management
Stage 1: Manager approval
Stage 2: Department Head approval
Stage 3: Finance Admin approval
Conditional Logic: Approval stages are dynamically triggered based on the cost of travel

Advanced approvals in agent flows
https://learn.microsoft.com/microsoft-copilot-studio/flows-advanced-approvals

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Table of Contents:
0:00 – Advanced Approval Workflows in Power Platform: Multi-Stage and Conditional Approvals
0:41 – What are Advanced Approvals?
1:29 – Advanced Approvals for Power Automate cloud flows or Copilot Studio agent flows?
3:40 – Advanced Approvals: Travel Request Approval
7:16 – Build Advanced Approval flow with multiple stages and conditions
16:45 – Set dynamic properties for Advanced Approval action
20:49 – Publish the agent approval flow
22:09 – Track advanced approval process outcome – check approval responses
23:50 – Track advanced approval process responses – track approval history