Send approvals on behalf of other users in your organization

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We’re pleased to announce the much-requested feature allowing flow creators to send approval requests on behalf of others in their organization. For example, let’s imagine that you’re Chris in the IT division for a publishing company and you’ve been tasked with building a document approval flow for the Design team. This flow is triggered whenever a new file is added in SharePoint. Furthermore, let’s suppose Adele, another user in your organization, uploads a document triggering the flow. Previously, the approval request would appear to come from Chris and would be listed in his Sent requests. Now, using the brand-new Requestor field in the Approvals connector, Chris can determine who the approval is for - the file creator or Adele in this case. Furthermore, the request would be shown under Adele’s Sent requests tab in the Approvals Center in Flow.  

Flow authored by Chris:

Document uploaded by Adele:

Request sent to approver (Nestor) for Adele: