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Need help please to solve Approval Flow

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Hello Community,

I am very very new to Power Automate and it is truly not my primarely function to do such things but I hate the void, and started to work on building an approval flow for the company.

 

A created a list on our Sharepoint / Teams General for the whole personnel.

 

Column are set : employee's name, start date, end date, approver's email address.

Flow is : when an item is created, start approval process, then if condition.

 

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It's almost all fine, except the recepient receives : the right title but it says the request is coming from me (creator of the flow) and not from the employee him/herself. 

 

I am guessing that is has to do with the 'ownership' of the flow, because it uses my email address.

 

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What do I have to change so that the query goes to the Manager/approver, without my name showing on the request as per attached PDF.

I join the package zip of the flow.

 

I am sorry if this request comes along a lot, I browsed a lot but couldn't find my answer.

 

 

Thanks a lot in advance for your feedbacks.

 

Kind regards from Paris.

 

Best wishes,

 

 

Maylis 

 

 

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  • Mira Ghaly Profile Picture
    11,409 Moderator on at
    Re: Need help please to solve Approval Flow

    @mayliswaze 

    You need to have a separate service account and set the connection to be under this service account so you do not have your name on the approval request but you can't send it by the Employee name is this is dependent on the Connection setup for this step.

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  • mayliswaze Profile Picture
    6 on at
    Re: Need help please to solve Approval Flow

    Hi Mira,

    Thank you so much for taking the time.

    So what I currently see in my teams window, seeing the approval requests, the users will not see them. They will just receive the notifications by email that their request has been approved or rejected? Correct?

    Thanks again.

    Kind regards,

    Maylis

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    Mira Ghaly Profile Picture
    11,409 Moderator on at
    Re: Need help please to solve Approval Flow

    @mayliswaze 

    Yes correct unless they initiate it directly from teams themselves:

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/teams/create-approval-from-teams-app

     

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