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iBro
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Sequential Approvals Like in Teams

‎11-23-2023 06:37 AM

Hi,

 

I just found out that if we create an approval request in MS Teams, we can specify the order of approvers as depicted below.

If we see the result in the second image, we can see the approval sequence.

How do we achieve this using Power Automate ?

The examples that I can find create two or more separate approvals and you have to open each of the approvals. This is inconvenient during audit and looks unpleasant in the eyes.

 

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‎11-24-2023 05:32 AM

The fact that they show in Teams as a single thing doesn't mean they are a single approval flow. They aren't. Teams is just taking the results of a looped approval flow and displaying them together. Behind the scenes it also uses multiple Start and wait for approval actions. Power Automate doesn't really provide a UI layer. You could produce something similar using a combination of Power Apps and a data source like SharePoint. That is essentially what Teams is doing.



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‎11-23-2023 06:51 AM

There isn't really a similar User Interface available in Power Automate, but if you submit a list of approvers to power Automate all you need to do is add a Start and wait for an approval flow inside an Apply to each loop on that list of approvers to get the same process. The loop will create one approval per user and the second won't go out until the first approval is complete.



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iBro
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‎11-23-2023 06:57 AM

Well, I did it just like what you described.

It's just not what I really want.

Well, I will have to live with it for the moment then.

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‎11-23-2023 08:51 AM

How does it differ from what you want and what does your flow look like?  We may be able to help.



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‎11-23-2023 07:58 PM

Well I wanted it to become one sequential approval instead of several disconnected approvals. Like the one shown in second image. Right now I have to make a custom UI to display and stitch those disconnected approvals into a complete approval flow. Perhaps someday Microsoft will improve the Approval connector.

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‎11-24-2023 05:32 AM

The fact that they show in Teams as a single thing doesn't mean they are a single approval flow. They aren't. Teams is just taking the results of a looped approval flow and displaying them together. Behind the scenes it also uses multiple Start and wait for approval actions. Power Automate doesn't really provide a UI layer. You could produce something similar using a combination of Power Apps and a data source like SharePoint. That is essentially what Teams is doing.



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‎02-14-2024 04:59 PM

Hi @iBro - Sequential approvals were supposed to come to Power Automate in release wave 1 2023. However, Microsoft removed it from the release wave, and haven't included it in any subsequent release waves.

 

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Daniel37
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‎05-26-2024 10:06 PM

Sequential approvals are possible through dataverse table manipulation.
Tomasc has a great video guide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4J6g7VXXco 

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‎06-17-2024 09:28 AM

Rezza Dorrani did a video recently on sequential approvals in Power Automate.  Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to be an option for me in Power Automate, and I'm not sure why (maybe it hasn't rolled out to Canada yet).  These have multiple steps with different approvers for each step.  This might be what you're looking for.

Here's the video:

https://youtu.be/F819U_l07qI?si=5c05LRwwkmRC8vlI

 

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‎06-17-2024 06:32 PM

It is available if you create a new environment in Region United States and tick get new features early.
To create a new environment visit: https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/environments 

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‎06-18-2024 04:35 AM

Thanks.

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