Approval workflows in SharePoint

Power Automate can create approval workflows for list items, files, and pages. Approvals can be achieved using SharePoint’s native content approval feature on lists and libraries or creating simple approvals just using list columns.

List item approval using content approvals

In this example, we’ll extend the earlier example by adding a simple approval process by enabling the Onboarding list’s content approvals, adding an approval action, and finally, updating the Approval Status list column. Content approval is enabled from the list’s versioning settings, which is explained in more detail in Chapter 4 of this book. When approvals are enabled, the list items’ approval status is Pending.

Let’s open the cloud flow created earlier in Edit mode and add an approval action – in this example, Start and wait for an approval. For the approval action, select First to respond as the type, add a title for...