We are happy to announce a new feature in SharePoint called "Request sign-off". The goal is to provide you an easy way to send an item for approval to someone else. This feature enables an open approval process that allows you to easily record whether or ...
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That's great! Now how about something similar for escalating items in a Task/Issues list? I built my own, but something like that should be OOB and look very similar to t...
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Hi Kerem, This feature has recently appeared in my customers tenant and they are keen to include this in their SharePoint Roll Out. However we have found that the Sign ...
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Hi Kerem, there're a couple of dilemmas we face with Flow approvals in general and "Request sign-off" in particular: 1. Approver actions are recorded in SPO Version Histor ...
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Thank you for the update! Is there any way to show approver's name in the list and lock the approved status for editing? If not, do you have plans to support it in future?
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We want to add add a workforce task management app to our intranet, hopefully with PowerApps. This is how it would work. In a SharePoint list, we would add a task that we expect each store to complete e.g. Update Prices. Then we want to trigger the creati...
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The "big brother" of flow is Logic Apps, you can set Logic Apps to do something when a list item is created, and that thing would be to create list items in all the other ...
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What about taking picture with powerapps and save it in a Document Librarie in sharepoint? is this actually not possible
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I am customizing a custom list form using PowerApps. In the view form I need to have available space for showing HTML content from a multi-line textfield. This is for showing internal vacancies and the job description might have a lot of text. I would like ...
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Has anyone created (or has the ability to create) a Flow that will intake an email and return the Flesh-Kinkaid readability score? Rather than run it manually through Word or Outlook, we'd like to be able to send our emails through Flow an ultimately popu ...
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I am hoping i am missing something! Just looking at moving approval workflows from SharePoint workflows to Microsoft Flow. From what i have read the flow cannot update the standard 'Approval Status' field in a library.
Is this right? Does this mean th...
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Hi all, I'm dealing with the same. Is there any update regarding this issue? Thanks, Soraia
Having the same issue. Also using library for ISO compliance. I cannot read the value in the Approval Status either which makes it much harder to send emails. Can some ...
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Tanya, you can absolutely update the approval status field.
that is not the case, here is an example of a library I just created using a tutorial from edX and it has the workflow status. it was correctly updated by clicking on the ...
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Hello, I would like to extract Emails from Email body, using Flow, to update Planner tasks affectations. Is there any way to do it? Thanks JB
Assuming your e-mail box is in 365 being sent to, you can use the get when new e-mail arrives, get e-mail content etc. to pull the body out and transfer it to Update plan...
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I tried using the update item action to set a Hyperlink type column in my custom list. The Flow field for this column only accepts the url so there seems to be no way to add the description part. Anyone got this working? In SharePoint: 
In Flow: 
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Set the value to "URL, Description" without quotes, has to have URL then comma then a space after comma then Description.
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I've created a PowerApp which gathers feedback from a user and adds it to a SharePoint list. In the PowerApp I have set the sharing: 
A Flow is triggered when a submit button is clicked in the app. The Flow adds the feedback to the SharePoint list. The Fl ...
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Know this is an old thread, but curious if you ever found a work around for this. Trying to deploy an org wide app and although the prompts are simple enough, this is qui ...
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I would like to have a Flow trigger that fires when a container is added to the root of an Azure blob storage. The only trigger I see currently requires that you pick a container which I don't have if one is added to the root. I have tried to configure ...
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I also tried specifying a container of "*" hoping that a file uploaded to any container would fire the trigger, but it errored out as well.
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After doing PowerApps form customizing to a custom list I get the following URL when looking at an item's Title field URL to it's view form: ../Henningstestsite/Lists/InternalVacancies/DispForm.aspx?ID=3&pa=1&e=0lMoSf. I see I can still get the display fo ...
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Hey everyone,
We just finished rolling out the feature to Microsoft Flow that lets you set choice, people and lookup fields, as well as content type for the item. Please read about the details, and a couple of known issues that we are working on, as wel ...
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Is the link no longer valid? It is loading a web server error.
Am I missing something? I have a Lookup column called Report Type in my list. I want to set it based on a variable's value in my Flow. But all I get is a dropdown for Rep ...
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Nice long waited additions!. Looking forward for support of attachments to list items.
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Our PowerApps will not currently load and dropdown fields and will not connect to SharePoint Lists. This is a tenant wide problem for us right now. Is anyone experiencing this right now?
Hello Timothy
I was having a similar problem around the same time earlier today but that seems to have been fixed, fortunately.
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In our SP2010 environment, we have an "application" that allows users to self-register for trainings and workshops. This works by having two lists: (1) the "Sessions" list and (2) the "Signups" list. The Sessions list contains each scheduled workshop or t ...
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@null null - Back to your original question there are two types of flows:
1. Flows that run in background in response to events, like an item being added to SharePoint l ...
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I'm having the same dilemma, I also want to be able to have emails sent from Flow to come from the site and not from me, but it keeps saying I can't do that.
I have not seen any support for the impersonate or update-list-row permissions. The other problem I've found is owner stickiness. I create a flow as userX and then share ...
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Hi All, The goal would be to have a body with the following:
"Request [ID] is ready. Click here to go to the item: LINK [Link to item]. " However, ID is not a selectable Dynamic content as far as I can tell. I was ready to write it off, but I noticed th ...
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Microsoft has recently introduced Approvals to Flow. This functionality provides users with an easy way to look at all their outstanding approval requests and action them. 
But what if you don’t know that you have pending approvals? In this article, I ...
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@Haniel Croitoru, Nice article ! Is there a way we can track who has approved when there are multiple approvers and ALL must approve in order for the request to move to A ...
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Sorry to jump in long after everyone else. I am working on building a flow for Document review, part of wich is to send out reminders. I am using the Do until with the con...
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This was almost identical to what I was needing so i set my flow up to be the same. the only difference is that my Do Until is on the right side instead of left and I put ...
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Hello @Haniel Croitoru@Jim Duncan
I tried the workflow u described.
It is as i wanted to implement in my project.
But what i want is that user will not get a single mail ...
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Very nice article, @Haniel Croitoru and an excellent solution! I am considering using something similar for Project Change Requests; do you know if Approvals can be assig ...
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I'm creating a request process using a SharePoint list with a customized (PowerApps) form and using Flow to both log each step of the process to a list and perform a series Approval on each request. Here's the basic process: - User submits request
- Flow Create
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We have created a Generic Account named after out Intranet that we create Flows under. This way it sends emails from that account and not our personal accounts.
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I have a gallery in my PowerApp that filters the results by "DateTimeChangeMade" from two date pickers. I also want to sort the results in Ascending order, but I can not seem to find the proper syntax for this. Below is my Filter that I need to wrap the s ...
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Is there any guidance on how to use Flow to manage document lifecycle with published versions with multiple approvals? This would require the option to trigger the flow from the drop down for a document in the document library. Flow on approval would set ...
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You should be able to build a document approval flow using the 'Set content approval status' action. This works with the SharePoint content approval feature. Here is my b...
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@Jeremy Thake the new "Set content approval status" action should do it. But only works partially. It works when you use "submit" to get from draft to pending, but it wil ...
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Re: set a major version and publish it: I believe that flow can not select and act on system intenal fileds, so this is not available at this time. Re: trigger a flow from ...
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Hi Jeremy, I will do my best to get you an answer to this question. :-)
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Hello Guys, I'm just new to Sharepoint and Flow and honestly, I have zero background in excel codings, logic, formulas, etc. (I'm not an IT guy). But I have been interested with automation which enhances processes and handoffs in the nature of my work. So ...
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I would like to create a nice and clean approval e-mail, which will show the details of the request.
(It's a request for a course e.g.: Where, When, Costs, Subject etc.).
The details are taken from a submitted Form.
MarkDown is suggested when one wants to ad ...
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All, i am creating a new Form for a Sharepoint list. I have one table with three fields that I only want to be filled out once. I have a second table with 7 fields. i would like for this table to be repeating, giving the person filling it out the option ...
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Hi Zane,
To do this you need to create two lists in SharePoint, one for the 3 fields and the second for the repeating fields. In the repeating list you need to have a L ...
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When customizing a custom list using PowerApps, my multiple line of text fields no longer behave as expected. In the forms they turn into single line of text and start displaying HTML in the output. I have managed to set the field behaviour to 'Edit multi ...
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If the field is connected to a text column in Sharepoint make sure the Sharepoint column is set to Plain Text, not Rich Text.
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Is there any way to conditionally show fields based on the value of another field? So if a user selects Yes in one field then other fields are show, same thing if the user selects NO then different set of fields are displayed?
You need to play with the "Visible" property of the controls. In the below sample, the textbox control is hide and shown when the user selects the Checkbox. 
And use the ...
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