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Power Auttomate - How to use automate to send multiple attachments or files ?

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Hi guys,

I am trying to find a way to automate to send multiple files for approval. The screenshots below would better explain how I am trying to accomplish this. As you can see from the screenshots, the files in a sharpoint list or folder, if you select one folder and right click, you get a few options.

One of those options is "automate". However, if you select two or more files, the option to trigger an automate goes away.

All I was trying to do was when files are in a folder or doc, I right click, select "automate" and then someone else would be prompted to do a approval.

Not sure if this is a limitation for power automate or not. But if this is, do you guys have a better work around?

Found this thread for reference: sharepoint online - Power Automate selected item trigger for multiple selected items - SharePoint Stack Exchange


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    abm abm Profile Picture
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    Hi @sdrakedrake 

     

    Yes its a product limitation. The workaround is Create a canvas App and load the list of documents. Add a custom check box against it. Here user can select more than one documents. Add a custom button called "Send for approval". The click event of custom button will collect the selected check boxes of the documents and pass it to Power Automate as a collection. This way you can have more than one document details for the flow to send approvals.

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