Problem with mails taken to my flow

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Hey everyone,

I've got a problem with mails taken from comboboxes. I take from combobox mail in form like this: "Mail@gmial.com;". The problem appear only when I take the same mail multiple time. I see it correctly passed to SharePoint, in my multiline text column, they look like this: "Mail@gmial.com;Mail@gmial.com;Mail@gmial.com;". But when I run my flow it sends only one approval, not 3 like I would wish in this example. There is no difference in working of the flow if I use ";" or "; "

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Hi , @Biskopt

Do you put this "Mail@gmial.com;Mail@gmial.com;Mail@gmial.com;" in your approval action?

If this , it will send one approval . If you want to send three approvals , you need to loop your email using:
spit( Your Email expression , ";" )

And then send an approval.If this can not help you, can you show the flow configuration in your side?

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Yueyun Zhang
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No I do not do this like that. First I initialize array of mails, then I set it using:
split(triggerBody()?['AllMails'],'; '). At the end I am using it into approval and I put "AllMails"(this is my column where I store all mails in the form like I wrote) into Assigned To. Without any loop. When I do not have any duplicates it works just fine. But when I have duplications It treats them as one mail and one approval.
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Hi , @Biskopt

Thanks for your response ! I am not surely understanding your flow condiguration.

But if you want to remove the duplications , you can use the union() function in my thought.

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Yueyun Zhang
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I don't want to remove duplicates. I want them, that is the problem. My flow works like this.
The item is created into my sharepoint list with mails into multiline text column in form like this: "Mail@gmial.com;Mail@gmial.com;Mail@gmial.com;".
Then I initialize "ArrayOfMails" type Array.
Then I set it using "split(triggerBody()?['AllMails'],'; ')".
Then I have my first approval where I put my "AllMails" in field AssignedTo.
And then goes the rest of my flow but this is not important.
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Hi , @Biskopt

Thanks for your response! Do you mean you have three same emails and you want to create three approvals?

If this , can you try this:

split(triggerBody()?['AllMails'],'; ')

In my understanding , one "Create an approval" action will create just one approval.

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If you put approval in loop, it will create approval for each mail. Instead of just sending it to them. So it will not fix problem
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Hi , @Biskopt

Yes, this will create three approvals. Sorry for that i may misunderstand your need.

So if you contains three same emails , what do you want to send in your side?

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This all things should work in one Approval. I have Multi Layer Approval. So doing 3 separate approvals will not solve my problem. I want one approval goes to 3 persons, that's all.