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Hello,

I built an app that a user can complete a request and include photos. Then I have a button to patch changes and send the photos and a PDF from a container as attachments for the admin to check.

I'm using sendemailv2 to achieve this and not Flow.

I'd like to add two buttons to the email (approve/reject) without the need for the admin to go in the app. Is this possible?

If I have to use the flow can i still use the coding for the attachments?

Thank you!

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cwebb365 3,294 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Yes, Flow would be required. And look into Adaptive cards and or approval requests which utilizes adaptive cards to collect a response and provide buttons that are dynamic in e-mail.

There is an action for 'Start an approval and wait for response' etc. Do consider that flows can only "wait" for 30 days as they will time out. But if the approvals are required within a short time frame then it'll be fine. Otherwise you have to come up with a create way of extending approvals through Dataverse.

Anyway, you can use whatever you need from your app in flow. If you need to pass data or variables to the flow you can do by using the request from powerapps expression option to get any information you need from the app for the flow to do what it needs to do (attachmentid etc.) that you can pass in when you call the flow in you're app.

Example, if you had a flow called SendApproval you can do SendApproval.Run(AttachmentID, Filename, Filelink, Approver, ItemID) etc.

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Thanks for the quick reply!
that’s what I was afraid of 🙂
I’ll dig into that flow nightmare…

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cwebb365 3,294 Most Valuable Professional on at

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PowerCards are the new crazy, but they require Teams atm. They will be briging it to Outlook in the future apparently. But you can easily create the cards in PowerApps canvas designer and then use them in a Teams Chat etc. for people to act on as well.

Cards for Power Apps overview - Power Apps | Microsoft Learn

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ViktorIvanidze 15 on at

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Try to use this approach: IvaSoft - SendEmailWithVotingButtons Flow template

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