How to Post in a Teams channel using credentials of person submitting a form

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Hi,

Can anyone suggest a method to apply to a Flow which creates posts in a Teams channel from a MS Form, whereby the post gets created by the credential of the person submitting the form? Is there something with bearer tokens that would make this work?

Another way of asking: There is a Submitted By object with the Form. Can it be used as the bearer token to create the post?

Thanks for any ideas.

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Jcook 7,781 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hello @Nicer_Atl

Unfortunately this is not possible in Power Automate today.

the only thing I can think of is using graphAPI with permissions setup in Azure App Registration to allow the Flow to do this. Keep in mind I have not tested this myself. And would also require the use of the HTTP connector which uses a Premium license.

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What you could do is have a service account setup and use that account as the connection. Than use the teams actions to get the @ mention token of that user

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Thanks for giving this some thought @Jcook !
Not sure I know what you mean by "Than use the teams actions to get the @ mention token of that user", but ok.. will study that angle.

Perhaps someone else might also have a clever idea. BTW, the use-case here is that if someone uses a form to post to a channel, the Flow creator is the only one who can edit the post in case something is incorrect.

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Hi @Nicer_Atl

Again this feature is not available in Lower Automate, you can submit an idea here:

https://aka.ms/Fl_Comm_Ideas

My proposed work around is described in this blog:

https://sharepains.com/2020/07/07/mention-microsoft-teams-power-automate/

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mmediaman 2 on at

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While this thread is quite old, a solution is still being sought.

@Jcook the blog you mention with a workaround seems relevant to being able to @mention someone, but not necessarily to assign ownership to the post. The goal in the OP here appears to be getting a post in a channel created by a flow to be owned (created by) the submitter of the Form which initiated the flow.

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