Unlock The Secrets To Effortless Power Automate Approval Reminders

[@iamalsowade]

Great video Steve. Your explanation was beneficial. I am going to check out more of your content. I do have one follow-up question specifically regarding the Power Automate portal. In your training scenario, if the approver does not respond by the time the reminder count reaches three then the status value is set to submitted which will cause the workflow to start again. It appears to me that the approver will now have more than one received request showing up on their Power Automate portal. They will see the initial approval request and also the subsequent approval request on the portal. I am worried that this might confuse some users. How would you address this?

[@stevecorey365]

That's correct. The multiple approval records issue was something I later resolved by creating an approval, then storing the approval ID along with the list item or file. Then I just used that value to retrieve the approval any time I needed to restart the process.

[@iamalsowade]

@@stevecorey365 Aahh... that's clever, I'm gonna try that out. Thanks Steve!

[@ajforerunner5535]

I'd like to thank you Steve, this helped with my approval process! Magical!

[@m.k.t.7971]

Great video! I'm following your instruction to create an approval with type of waiting for all responses. The reminder emails sent to pending approvers correctly, but I'm having an error for 'Flow run Failed. an action failed. no dependent actions succeeded'. I doubled checked that I have a 'Compose' action at the end and configured it's run after as 'is successful' and 'is skipped'. Could you please help figure this problem out? Thank you!

[@stevecorey365]

I'd have to see it myself to be able to help with that. It's a little tough to troubleshoot otherwise.

[@ajforerunner5535]

Thanks

[@stevecorey365]

I'm SO glad it helped you, and thank you so much for your support!!!

[@lukecwidak7998]

Is there a way to send a reminder when you have mutliple people in approval and want to send reminder to just the pending people

[@stevecorey365]

I remember doing something like this a year or two ago for a client. I think I had to create JSON to hold all the individual recipients, and update that list as responses came back.

[@Sunilprakashsabbithi]

Great Video Steve... Really loved it. Just wanted to know if Is this the good process if i am having multi level of approval process say more than 10 levels of approval? If you can take it as a usecase and do a video will be an awsome as there is no video for multi level approvals more than 2 approvers.

[@stevecorey365]

I think it's worth trying out, but the 30-day timeout will be the limiting factor.

[@Sunilprakashsabbithi]

@@stevecorey365 yeah I thought we could try to address that issue by terminating the flow and then initiating a new flow instance by just taking the yes or no column and then adding it to the trigger condition…

[@vinodprasanth6106]

Hi Steve, This is a great video. thanks. When I put a timeout for PT1M and then reminder count equals 2, after the first reminder, without me doing any approval, completes the flow as succeeded. any idea why it does that? I am have not approved yet after 1st reminder but still closed as the flow as succeeded

[@stevecorey365]

Hi Vinod! Thanks so much for your new channel membership! Did you initialize the reminder count at the top of the flow as a 1 or a 0? If it starts as 1, you'd have one less loop iteration, and that could cause the behavior you saw.

[@xvsunkissorange]

Does this work if an approver reassigns the approval?

[@stevecorey365]

I would think so, but I haven't tested that.

[@heathermiller3685]

Hi Steve, I used your Power Automate workflow - It works really great, I tried to add a second Approval after the first Do Until section but it fails after it sends the reminder email. wanted to see if you have any thoughts on this. ( I modified the trigger too but the first step works correctly with my changes)

[@stevecorey365]

Hi Heather! Without seeing your flow, it's difficult to diagnose. My first thought is to look at the error and see if you can figure out why it's failing.

[@heathermiller3685]

@@stevecorey365 I actually did figure it out I needed to make a new counter interval for each reminder flow.

[@ottmantaoufik6935]

Think about introducing a new Boolean variable with a default value set to false. Then, once you exit the loop, change its state to true. Add a condition and repeat the actions shown in the video. I believe this could address your need.

[@wesleyvaldes]

Neat video. Did you ever try to connect text blaze to Microsoft 365's database? Text blaze has dynamic snippits and it would be really cool if you could save the data entered into the dynamic text blaze field into a secure database in 365.

[@stevecorey365]

No, I never tried that, but it sounds cool!