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Power Automate - Building Flows
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How to send emails ONLY after an item has been approved

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Posted on 17 Sep 2020 23:38:16 by 22

Hi there,

 

I'm building a form for employee status change (i.e. when an employee is switching to a new manager. The manager will submit the details into a MS form). I have built out the flower from scratch so far and the approval shoots over to the approver.

 

After approval, I want two emails to be sent - one to the requestor and one to HR for notification- but ONLY after it has been approved. Initially, when I tested out the form, it sent the approval request AND the two email notifications at the exact same time.

 

I tried building in a condition to only send the two emails after approval, but the flow keeps failing. Any ideas on what I need to change?

  • Littlefoot123 Profile Picture
    22 on 18 Sep 2020 at 23:07:33
    Re: How to send emails ONLY after an item has been approved

    Thank you everyone for your helpful replies! I marked PrasadAthalye as the solution. I switched back to the Approval I was originally using- adding the wait for an approval and condition of  outcome  = approved, fixed the problem. Thank you so much! 

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    PrasadAthalye Profile Picture
    4,795 on 18 Sep 2020 at 13:13:36
    Re: How to send emails ONLY after an item has been approved

    Configure your flow like this and it should work...

     

    Use 'Wait for an approval' action. Then check the outcome. If Approve, send email.

     

    PrasadAthalye_0-1600434761066.png

     

     

    Like and Mark this as an answer if this resolves your issue.

  • Loosersic Profile Picture
    50 on 18 Sep 2020 at 06:30:57
    Re: How to send emails ONLY after an item has been approved

    Hi Littlefoot,

     

    You can use HTML to make it look nicer.
    The email sending capacity for 'Send email with choices' is from about 1994. 🙂

     

    However, you can use your original approval workflow. From memory I found that method a little clunky - not easy for the approver to actually approve. It made them sign into a webpage to press a button. The Approve by email is sooo easy.

    I created a template flow called "Start approval when a new item is added" 
    It was easy to add in two extra emails when the APPROVED at the end of the approved option.


    flow3.png

     

     

    You can give this a try?

     

  • Littlefoot123 Profile Picture
    22 on 18 Sep 2020 at 04:28:11
    Re: How to send emails ONLY after an item has been approved

    Hi Loosersic

    Your pictures helped a lot! I switched out the approval type with the Send email with options and it seems to have worked. However, the format of the email is a bit unsightly and repeats the info, anyway to delete the line at the bottom under Request for your input?

    Screen Shot 2020-09-17 at 9.37.32 PM.png

  • Littlefoot123 Profile Picture
    22 on 18 Sep 2020 at 04:18:03
    Re: How to send emails ONLY after an item has been approved

    I used the Create an Approval action with the body pulling information from a Microsoft Form:

    (Sorry, it says I don't have permission to upload images for some reason)

     

    https://imgur.com/m9CNMmX 

    https://imgur.com/bquatzk 

     

    (EDIT UPDATE: Disregard the above. I followed the other user's flow and used a different action instead and it is working now)

  • ScottShearer Profile Picture
    25,223 Most Valuable Professional on 18 Sep 2020 at 00:55:13
    Re: How to send emails ONLY after an item has been approved

    @Loosersic 

    You mentioned that your Flow generated an error - can you post a screen shot of the error?

     

     

  • Loosersic Profile Picture
    50 on 18 Sep 2020 at 00:25:00
    Re: How to send emails ONLY after an item has been approved

    Hi,

     

    If I read it correctly, you want to send an approval email (Send an Email with Options) and then if the response = Approved, send two emails - one to the creator of the form/list item and one to HR?

    Does the attached image help? flow.png

     

     

  • PrasadAthalye Profile Picture
    4,795 on 18 Sep 2020 at 00:16:12
    Re: How to send emails ONLY after an item has been approved

    Can you upload your flow picture? Which approval action are you using?

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