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Payment request approval processing- Approval Hierarchy

Hello Everyone, I created a payment request approval processing.

Our ideal processing is:

Applicant fills the Microsoft form->send request to related approver->record the approval result in excel on OneDrive-> Automatically send email to inform accounting team for posting journals

 

We have three general situations as below, and that’s why I use “Do until” and double “get manager” function.

  1. Applicant is Specialist, and the hierarchy will be in office 365 will be: Specialist->Supervisor->Manager->Director
  2. Applicant is Supervisor: Supervisor->Manager->Director
  3. Applicant is Manager: Manager->Director

Now I have two struggles:

1. I use “Do until” but it didn't send the approval email to manager, only the direct management ( Supervisor or Manager)… I don’t want to escalate to VP for approval. Or I should use which function to connect our Company's Microsoft user hierarchy? If yes, how?

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2. Is there any way for me to add more than 9 nested steps? As below picture I couldn’t add the condition for approval to me or not anymore.

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Thank you.

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Hi @Anonymous 

Thank you for your responding.

Sorry to reply you now.

The reason why "Do Until" didn't find the manager to approve in your Flow is that it only can get the manager information of the responder , can't get higher level Manager information.

vLilyWmsft_0-1623986613771.png

You can try to set two String Variables to make the approval to end when the job title is Manager.

Flow in details you can refer to:

vLilyWmsft_1-1623986613775.png

Initialize a Mail variable, and Value is Responders’Email.

vLilyWmsft_2-1623986613776.png

Initialize a jobtitle variable.

vLilyWmsft_3-1623986613777.png

vLilyWmsft_4-1623986613780.png

Hope the content above may help you.

Best Regards

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v-LilyW-msft
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Hi @Anonymous 

Thank you for your posting.

According to your description, you want to created a payment request approval processing. but have two struggles.

About first question : Unfortunately, there is no function to connect Company's Microsoft user hierarchy.

About second question: Due to limits, currently Flow allowed nesting depth for actions is 8, If you want to add more nest steps you can add child flows.

 

You could consider use a Child Flow:

https://manueltgomes.com/microsoft/flow/flow-run-child-flow/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/create-child-flows

 

v-LilyW-msft_0-1622713608359.png

For more info about limits of Flow, you can refer to:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/limits-and-config

 

Hope the content above may help you.
Best regards,

Anonymous
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Dear Lily,

 

Thanks for the reply.

I would like to know then which function I could use for approval line...since "Do Until" didn't find the manager to approve.

 

Thank you.

Hi @Anonymous 

Thank you for your responding.

Sorry to reply you now.

The reason why "Do Until" didn't find the manager to approve in your Flow is that it only can get the manager information of the responder , can't get higher level Manager information.

vLilyWmsft_0-1623986613771.png

You can try to set two String Variables to make the approval to end when the job title is Manager.

Flow in details you can refer to:

vLilyWmsft_1-1623986613775.png

Initialize a Mail variable, and Value is Responders’Email.

vLilyWmsft_2-1623986613776.png

Initialize a jobtitle variable.

vLilyWmsft_3-1623986613777.png

vLilyWmsft_4-1623986613780.png

Hope the content above may help you.

Best Regards

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