Last year, as part of our ongoing reinvention of business processes, we rolled out modern lists integrated with Microsoft Flow. Flow provides zero-code automation of common business processes and co...
Updated Mar 12, 2017
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I was hoping to replace Workflows with Flows. The only problem was I could not figure out is it looked like the Flow was associated with my account. If I created a flow to send an email, left the company, my account was disabled, what happens then? I am the sole SharePoint admin at my company and if I leave does that mean every single Flow that sends an email would stop working at that point?
EDIT: I found out after playing with it again that I am able to add other people to the flow and give them permission. But I also remembered the others reasons I did not like them for this purpose. The main reason we use workflows so far is to send emails once a list item has been added. Here are a couple issues that it does not work for me:
- Cannot send to distribution groups
- No rich text editor, I assume I can do HTML when I click advanced options and set html to true, but who really wants to do HTML
- Can't create a link to click and view the list in the email