Working with the approval flow
If you think back through the flow, it has several steps:
- A request added to a SharePoint list
- An approval that gets triggered
- An approval response
- Updating the SharePoint list item
Let's look at the approval from the requestor's perspective.
Starting an approval
The easiest way to test this flow is to start vacation request. To do so, follow these steps:
- Navigate to the SharePoint list that was created as part of this exercise.
- On the list, click New to create a new request item:
Fill out the form. Add a Title, select the Start and End dates, and click Save:
- Click Save.
At this point, you have created a SharePoint list that can be used as the trigger for the approval flow, as well as the...
