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Aaron Guilmette
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Aaron Guilmette is a Senior Program Manager with the Microsoft 365 Customer Experience, helping customers adopt and deploy the Microsoft 365 platform. He primarily focuses on collaborative technologies, including Microsoft Teams, Exchange Online, and Azure Active Directory.
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Configuring an approval flow to use Teams

As we mentioned in the Understanding the flow section, this flow is going to be initiated by a request or a file being placed on a SharePoint site and result in approval notifications being sent to both the approver and the requester inside Teams. If you want to re-familiarize yourself with some of the concepts related to files, see Chapter 4, Copying Files.

Since this is a longer flow, we’ll complete it in stages:

  • Getting the request’s information
  • Creating the approval
  • Returning the response

Let’s begin!

Getting the requester’s information

In this first section, we’re going to configure the trigger for the flow to detect a new file and obtain information about the file and the requester.

To configure the flow, follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to the Power Automate web portal (https://flow.microsoft.com), select Create, and then select Automated cloud...
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Aaron Guilmette

Aaron Guilmette is a Senior Program Manager with the Microsoft 365 Customer Experience, helping customers adopt and deploy the Microsoft 365 platform. He primarily focuses on collaborative technologies, including Microsoft Teams, Exchange Online, and Azure Active Directory.
Read more about Aaron Guilmette