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Unable to start an approval flow successfully

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Dear community,

 

I am in the process of trying to create a flow which serves the following objectives:

 

1) Create a form for members of an organization to fill up (successfully created)

2) When response is received, automate a flow that requires first level approver to approve it (problem faced)

3) After 1st approver completes approvals, send an email notification to update and prompt final approver to approve the form.

4) After final approver approves it, an email notification is sent to starter, both approvers and an administration team.

 

Flow process:

1) Form response submitted - successful

2) Form response ID found - successful

3) Get user profile - successful

4) Create an approval - failed

 

Error: 

BadRequest
The request failed. Error code: 'InvalidApprovalRequestor'. Error Message: 'The approval requestor must be a single, valid user account within your organization.'. Screenshot: 

HJLim_0-1702203290049.png

 

Situation: The user is within the same organization, however, the selection of the line manager's email is by a means of a text fill submitted by the requestor.

 

screenshot of the form below

HJLim_1-1702203533799.png

screenshot of the Power Automate screen 

HJLim_2-1702203619779.png

 

How do i go forward with this? I will like the responder to be able to manually input for the line manager's email

 

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  • Nived_Nambiar Profile Picture
    18,129 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at
    Re: Unable to start an approval flow successfully

    Hi @HJLim 

     

    it should work even you pass form value having email address to approval actions, but seems ti be strange why it does not work

     

    Could you ensure that you have passed same value as highlighted below in Assigned to ?

     

    Nived_Nambiar_0-1702206144883.png

     

     

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  • HJLim Profile Picture
    28 on at
    Re: Unable to start an approval flow successfully

     

    Dear Nived_Nambiar,

     

    The following steps were taken:

    1. Remove old information.
    2. Input Line Manager's email information 
    3. Saved flow and test again.
    4. Attempt failed again. Screenshot as below:

    HJLim_0-1702290360192.png

     

    Looking forward to having some help. Thank you

     

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    Nived_Nambiar Profile Picture
    18,129 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at
    Re: Unable to start an approval flow successfully

    Hi @HJLim 

     

    could you show how line manager dynamic content looks like ?

    is it only having line manager email present or some other extra characters ?

     

    Because for me it worked up as expected 

    Thanks & Regards,

    Nived N 🚀

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  • HJLim Profile Picture
    28 on at
    Re: Unable to start an approval flow successfully

    Dear @Nived_Nambiar 

     

    Thank you for the suggestion. I had created two flow "actions" instead of one (separated start and wait), and it worked.

     

    🙂

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