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Approval Flow from Sharepoint List

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Posted on by garnern2 65

Greetings.

 

I have a flow which will be triggered my schedule and require one person to approve items from a Sharepoint List. I want to store the response in the Sharepoint List. When I use "Start and wait for an approval," it does not loop through--it waits on one approval before sending the next request. How can I: 

 

Manual Trigger > Get Items (multiple) > Send Approval > Store Response without stopping the flow one at a time? This seems like it should be simple and it probably is...except for me.

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    eric-cheng 5,171 on at
    Re: Approval Flow from Sharepoint List

    Hi @garnern2 ,

     

    In your loop, you can enable concurrency and increase the degree of parallelism.

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    I created 3 items

     

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    And my flow will create 3 approval tasks at the same time

     

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    Just be careful though as concurrency can led to strange behaviors if you are using variables because they are all running well, at the same time.  You can look at using Compose instead of variables.  You can read more here and here

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    garnern2 65 on at
    Re: Approval Flow from Sharepoint List

    Thanks! I actually did this initially, but alas, I was using variables which did result in strange behavior. The simple was to change the trigger to a When Modified and add a column for "Trigger" so the Approval flow doesn't start until we've updated the column to "Trigger" via another flow. Not ideal, but it's really the only workaround.

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