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Can Power Automate process a flow to manage multiple documents
IMGeoffBlack : Hi, would like to understand more clearly here, you are trying to have a single approval flow for a folder with multiple files...and hold the files approval that have not met the requirement?
- IMGeoffBlackJul 05, 2022Copper Contributor
Surya_Pammi : Yes that is pretty much the idea. I have used another software providers CDE whereby you can create a folder with an approval workflow and add multiple files. This then goes through the approval process and will move files that have been approved but retain the files that have not been approved, this way the workflow maintains the flow of consumable information whilst other information is being corrected or finalised for another approval workflow. It also helps to manage the Information that needs to be worked on as appose to seeing everything all the time, including the files that have already been approved.
Example: I have a folder called WIP for Approval, access is limited to just a small number of staff. This folder remains empty until there are files to be shared. These files need to be signed-off prior to sharing and thus require an approval process to manage the information. The files are uploaded to WIP and once approved, the files are moved to a shared folder called For Information. This folder has company wide access as well as to our supply chain.
In typical situations outside of our company there are only one or two files that require approval, therefore the single file approval workflow works really well. We are a design office and thus have 10's if not 100's of drawings that need approving for a single Shared submission.
Thanks