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Notifications connector for Run Only users

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Posted on by WillPage

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I'm the author of a Flow that uses the Notifications connector. I have shared it with some run-only users. Despite the Notifications connection being provided by the run-only user, I still get the notifications to my phone.

How can I make the notification go to the person who ran the Flow (the trigger is Flow button for mobile)?

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Hi @WillPage ,

You could get the user name and user email by the following expression:

triggerOutputs()['headers']['x-ms-user-email']
triggerOutputs()['headers']['x-ms-user-name']

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@v-bacao-msftThe output of those expressions is the same as the person who runs the flow from mobile.

I found some behaviour that I wasn't expecting just now. If the person clicks on the email they receive when the Flow is shared with them, then runs the flow from the webpage, they get the notification to their mobile as expected:
But if they run from Flow button for mobile, it is the flow author who gets the notification.

I'm testing this with the Android app.

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Also, another thing to note, this is via a widget on the home screen.
If the user is actually in the Flow app, the notification is shown, but not as an actual Android push notification, just a short-lived banner in the Flow App.
It's when the flow button is pressed on the home screen as a widget that this strange behaviour occurs.

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I guess this is a bug then, and I have to live with it?

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Hi @WillPage ,

Are you using the actions in Notifications? If so, the one receiving the notification will be the Flow author, because the To field cannot be defined here. The default recipient is the Flow author.

Try using the Send an email notification (V3) action to send notifications.

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