Category: Power Automate

Let us update our previous flow, to use markdown to format the approval email.

Check other posts on Approvals – https://nishantrana.me/2020/08/31/approvals-power-automate-dynamics-365/

Markdown is the lightweight mark-up language for adding formatting elements to the plain text.

Refer the Markdown cheat sheet

We’d update the Details property of Start and wait for an approval action.

Below we have added some sample text that uses markdown syntax.

Below is how it renders in the outlook web access OWA.

And inside the Power Automate Approval Center.

Below we have used markdown syntax for defining the table.

Inside OWA.

Inside the Power Automate approval center.

And within the Power Automate mobile app

Kindly refer to the below table that lists down inconsistencies among different clients.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/approvals-markdown-support#client-support

Also check out –

https://www.about365.nl/2020/02/27/power-automate-approvals-markdown-or-html/

https://sharepains.com/2019/07/09/using-markdown-in-microsoft-flow-approval-actions/

Hope it helps..

Let us update our previous flow to include parallel approvals.

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The difference between Approve / Reject Type – Everyone must approve and parallel approvals would be that using parallel approvals we could wait for responses for all the approvers, be it approve or reject.

In case of Everyone must approve, if any of the approvers rejects, the request is considered rejected and it will not wait for other approver’s response, and for the request to be considered approved all the approver needs to approve it.

Let us add a new action Add a parallel branch after Apply to each.

Let us keep only test user 1 in the first branch and in the other branch add a Start and wait for an approval action.

We have updated both to be approval type First to respond, set Assigned to the property to test user 1 and test user 2 for the respective branches.

And also we want to evaluate the responses from both the approvers before taking further action, so we have deleted the condition action from the first branch.

Let us add a new Condition action, with 2 AND conditions, i.e. if the first user approves and the second user rejects which corresponds to the respective Start and wait for an approval action.

Here if the condition is fulfilled we update the description of the case record.

Let us save, check, and trigger the flow.

After test user 1 has approved, we can still see the flow waiting for user 2 to respond.

The flow completes successfully after the response is received from both the approvers. Here user 2 rejects the request.

As expected, we can see the description field updated as defined in the update the record action.

Hope it helps..

Let us update our previous sequential flow, to include file attachments to notes of the case record, as part of the approval.

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First, we need to add Initialize variable action and define an Array variable to store all the attachments details.

Next, we will use List records action, to fetch all the notes records associated with that particular case record.

Next, we will use Apply to each action to loop through all the attachments and use it to populate our attachments array variable defined in the previous step.

Now as the last step, we’d specify the attachment array variable for the attachment field inside the Start and wait for an approval action.

Now we are ready to save and test our flow.

Here our flow is waiting for approval from the user.

The approver receives the notification and can now review the attachments before responding.

Hope it helps..