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Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate, Second edition

You're reading from   Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate, Second edition Use business process automation to achieve digital transformation with minimal code

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803237671
Length 424 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Introducing Microsoft Power Automate 2. Getting Started with Power Automate FREE CHAPTER 3. Working with Email 4. Copying Files 5. Creating Button Flows 6. Generating Push Notifications 7. Working with Shared Flows 8. Working with Conditions 9. Getting Started with Approvals 10. Working with Multiple Approvals 11. Posting Approvals to Teams 12. Using a Database 13. Working with Microsoft Forms 14. Accepting User Input 15. Automating Azure AD 16. Introducing Robotic Process Automation 17. Introducing AI Models 18. Exporting, Importing, and Distributing Flows 19. Monitoring and Troubleshooting Flows 20. Other Books You May Enjoy
21. Index

Adding parallel branches

For approval processes that are either long-running or involve multiple users or interactions, you may want to send periodic email reminders to users. One way to do this is by populating variables at each approval stage and checking whether they’re complete using a parallel approval branch. You’ll do this with five components:

  • The Initialize variable action will be used to configure a variable (such as FirstApprovalDone) that you’ll check throughout the approval. The variable will be initialized to false, and then only set to true once that approver approves the request.

    With some programming languages, you can save the results of an action or command to a variable on the fly. With Power Automate, you must declare variables before you use them.

  • The Do until control will be used to create a loop that periodically checks to see whether the variable (FirstApprovalDone, in the example) has changed...
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