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Hi Experts,

I'm trying to create a Dataverse table for PowerApps. I want to create an approval system. when the Users submit the request, they should be able to select the approvers from a dropdown control in powerapps.

I couldn't find out which control to use for this requirement. In SharePoint, we can use the people picker column. Could you please advise how to achieve this in the dataverse?

I want to have limited approvers in the dropdown. when the user selects an approver and submits, the approver should be able to receive the task to act on.

Please advise how to achieve this.

Thank you!

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Prakash4691 1,332 on at

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@MSDevSP

You can use lookup field which points to user table. Which creates 1:N relation with user to new table.

Use powerautomate to create task while creating a record or updating approver field.

If it answers your question, kindly give kudo and accept it as solution.

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Prakash

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Ram Prakash Duraisamy 5,846 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hello @MSDevSP,

Create a lookup field for User in Request Entity.

Then Create a workflow in DataVerse by navigating
Setings --> Advance Settings --> Process
Create a process as when a record is created create a task and send an email to the user selected in step 1.

Please Mark as Answer and provide Kudos if it is helpful.

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EricRegnier 8,720 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @MSDevSP,

To supplement a little on the previous two posts, workflows are a deprecated so I would suggest rather @Prakash4691 suggestion. There are different type of drop downs in Dataverse: option sets/choices and simple lookups which are more advance and also my recommendation. More info on those:
Choices: https://docs.microsoft.com/powerapps/maker/data-platform/types-of-fields#choices
Simple lookups: https://docs.microsoft.com/powerapps/maker/data-platform/types-of-fields#different-types-of-lookups

Also would suggest to have a look at approval flows where many of the approval functionality is built-in: https://docs.microsoft.com/power-automate/get-started-approvals

Hope this helps!

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