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Start and Wait for Approval - Assigned To M365 group gave problems

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Posted on by Bee1 21

Hi, 

 

My flow with Start and Wait for Approval works if the Assigned To field has individual user's email addresses. When M365 group is keyed into the assigned To field, flow only send the email to 1 member in the group. Emails are not sent to the other 3 members in the group. Additionally, when the email recipient click "Approve" for the task and the follow up actions are completed by flow, flow status continues to show it as Running when it is supposed to show Succeeded since there is no further action required of Flow.  I tried searching the Internet and reading the Microsoft documentation on Start and Wait for Approval. Apparently, Assigned to field is supposed to support M365 group but somehow this is not the case when I tried it on flow. 

 

Below showed how I have configured the start and wait for approval. 

Bee1_0-1650677923771.png

 

Many Thanks!!!

 

Bee1

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    Bee1 21 on at
    Re: Start and Wait for Approval - Assigned To M365 group gave problems

    Hi, R

     

    Thanks for reaching out. As i typed ahead in the Assigned to field, Power Automate did find group name and , I selected the displayed address and saved flow. I tried again 1 more time just now but it still gave the same problem. By the way, flow will resolve the assigned to field to the email address of the group even though I have selected the group name that it found. Not sure if there is a bug here?

     

    Best regards 

     

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    Rhiassuring 8,688 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at
    Re: Start and Wait for Approval - Assigned To M365 group gave problems

    Hi there, 

     

    When you start typing the name of the group into the Assigned To field, does Power Automate find it? It looks like you have typed in the addresses. Looking at this, it looks like it should resolve to a name: 

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/group-approvals

    Let me know!

     

    R

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