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Power Automate page approval flow for SharePoint pages with wrong name of publisher

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Hello everyone,

 

I have a SharePoint website as my company's knowledge base. Different people may edit different pages, according to their permission levels. I also have a Power Automate flow for page approval, which will send requests for different groups of people, depending on which page changes were made.

 

Everything working fine, except a "small" detail:

It doesnt matter who made the request or who approved and published the changes, when I go to the page's version history its always me appearing as the publisher.

 

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 Is it possible to have the name of the actual approver instead of mine? 

 

Thanks in advance,

Duarte

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  • ScottShearer Profile Picture
    25,240 Most Valuable Professional on at
    Re: Power Automate page approval flow for SharePoint pages with wrong name of publisher

    @DuarteMeneses 

    Since the page is being published by the Flow, you will always show as the publisher - no way around that since your connection info is being used in the Flow.  You may want to add the name of the person who made the changes to the comments.

     

  • DuarteMeneses Profile Picture
    7 on at
    Re: Power Automate page approval flow for SharePoint pages with wrong name of publisher

    @ScottShearer, thank you for the fast reply.

    I understand your answer because my connections are the following:

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    If I swap the SharePoint connectors from using my connection to "provided by run-only user", like Approvals or Notifications, I am able to run the flow but it fails for other people. Maybe it is possible if I change some permissions in SharePoint? Here is an example of the error when someone else tried to run the flow:

    DuarteMeneses_0-1657124495906.png

     

    Thanks,

    Duarte

  • ScottShearer Profile Picture
    25,240 Most Valuable Professional on at
    Re: Power Automate page approval flow for SharePoint pages with wrong name of publisher

    @DuarteMeneses 

    Unfortunately that won't work.  Sorry...

     

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