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Hello,

I have a concern about a flow I am creating.

What I am doing is that for a sharepoint list, according to a specific selection, it is derived to a different approver. If the person when creating a list, selects "A", authorizes a person. if you select "B", another person and so on.

My question is: Is it ok to create this simple flow, so that if you don't select one of the options, it returns false and so on until it returns true?

I know that there is a way to do it with formulas and applying variables, but since I will leave it reflected in the area where I work for the future, I must make it as simple as possible so that other people understand.

If I leave this option, is it possible that it throws an error in the future?

what method do you recommend? they help me a lot.

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While there are more efficient ways to approach this, there is nothing wrong with having a series of conditions. That said, why do you have something on the "No" side of your first condition. I thought that you only wanted action taken if the response was A?

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Wrong formula in my flow.

What I need is that if they select "A", a person1 is derived. But I just realized that if this person declines, they don't update the item since they don't have an "Update Item" set to "No". But if you repeat the "Update item" for condition 2 and 3, it will always result in "Rejected", regardless of the selection in any of the conditions. I've been reading and you can perform a lookup of another list with approved, but I would not know how to formulate this workflow well.

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If Person A is selected, you need to put a condition after the approval. If the Outcome is Approve, do one thing and if the Outcome is Reject then do something else.

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Fixed the issue.

The flow has resulted for me by performing a "Switch" and applying a "Control" for 3 different cases (A, B or C) and it works without any problem. Maybe for later I will have to make a flow applying formulas and a lockup of another list to be more efficient, but for now, it works fine. Thank you very much for your answers and help.

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