Hi
I wonder if you can help.
I put together a basic Flow for a requirement recently which did the following:
- Using a Form, a staff member submits an Annual Leave request specifying Start Date and End Date and Approver (line manager may be off sick/on holiday)
- The Form adds an event to a List of approval requests
- An alert appears in a Teams Channel
- Approver receives an email asking to approve/reject
- Staff member receives an email with the decision
- List item is updated as approved/rejected
- If approved, a new item is added to a SharePoint Calendar showing only Approved requests
That worked fine but now I've been informed that the annual leave requests are for specific start times and end times, rather than the entire day. This info would have been useful at the outset 🙂
Currently MS forms does not allow start and end times as fields - only dates.
Should I start thinking about using the old built-in SharePoint Workflows for this - i.e. an approval workflow for when someone adds an event to a Calendar?
I would prefer to use the Forms/Power Automate combination as it enables me to generate the Alert in Teams in one hit - now it looks like I'll need a separate Flow for that action.
Any help would be appreciated, thank you.
Conan McDonnell
EDIT: I've just tried to enable the approval workflows in Site and Site collection settings in SP online and the SP 2013 workflows are not listed. Am I missing something here? I can't find any info on whether or not these have been discontinued.
