SharePoint - MS Word Content Review Flow - Reality Check

Hi Quotidian,

This is possible using Flow. High-level steps include:

• Add "Status" (Choice), "Sent For Review" (Date and time), "Due Back" (Date)  and Flow (String) columns to the Document Library. 
  
  
  
• Create a new Flow using the SharePoint "For a selected file" trigger. Point it to your site and document library. "Add an input" for Email.
  
  
  
• Initialize a string variable and set it to "FileId"
  
  
  
• Add "Get files (properties only)" action. Point it to your site and document library. Add "Filter Query": ID eq variable from previous step.
  
  
  
• Add "Update file properties" action. Point it to your site and document library. Set "Status Value". Set "Sent For Review" to expression utcNow('yyyy-MM-dd'). Set "Due Back" to expression addDays(utcnow('yyyy-MM-dd'), 5) - you'll have to figure out the business days requirement.
• Add "Send an email" action. Set "To" to "Email" from "For a selected file".
  
  
  
• Format the "Flow" column in the document library using this JSON code - https://github.com/SharePoint/sp-dev-list-formatting/tree/master/column-samples/generic-start-flow. Make sure you get the Flow ID correct.

At the end of it you get a button within the document library that will trigger the Flow and direct the email to the reviewer.

I hope this helps.

Norm