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David Thompson's avatar
David Thompson
Copper Contributor
Aug 08, 2017

Questions about Form and Flow working together

I want to use a new submission on a Form I created to send emails to a specific individual in my organization if there name is selected in the Form.  I have tried multiple different triggers and actions within Flow to try to make that happen.  None of them have worked successfully.  Can someone help me figure this out?  I have watched the tutorials online and they do not address anything like this.

 

Thanks.

  • Alan Marshall's avatar
    Alan Marshall
    Steel Contributor
    You could lookup the name using the office 365 profile connector and get the email address. Alternatively create a list in SharePoint and lookup the person there and retrieve an email address from another field.
  • Matt Coats's avatar
    Matt Coats
    Steel Contributor

    Unless someone comes along with something better, you might be looking at a series of hard-coded conditionals where you send an email to a person based on the response that resembles them, (i.e., if John Doe, then email jdoe@microsoft.com, else, move on to next person). This is obviously not ideal, but is the only option I see using Flow and Forms currently, unless someone heroically swoops in with a better method.

    • David Thompson's avatar
      David Thompson
      Copper Contributor

      Matt,

       

      Thanks, I have tried that and have been unsuccessful with that process at this time.  

      • Matt Coats's avatar
        Matt Coats
        Steel Contributor

        Can you define unsuccessful? I can't help you if I don't know what issues you're running into.