Create PowerApp Approval Workflows

Create PowerApp Approval Workflows from SharePoint

Using SharePoint lists as your data source is a great way to streamline the development process. As you can automatically generate a basic app directly from your data source.

In our example we are using a SharePoint Online list to store all our incident data. Such as who created the incident report, when it happened with a description and any follow up actions that must be carried out.

In the video we show you how we expand on this to add an additional column called Status. This field will be used for tracking the current approval status of the incident report item.

The PowerApp will trigger a Power Automate approval workflow on submission of a new Incident report being created from within the PowerApp. The Power Automate workflow will then be triggered. It will then seek approval from the relevant employee to confirm that all the information in the report is satisfactory.

Depending on the outcome of the approval step the Power Automate workflow will then set the overall incident report item to either approved or rejected.

The workflow demonstrated in our video is very simplistic to give you a flavor of what could possibly be achieved.

However, this could be expanded further to include notification emails with specific responses dependent on the outcome of the approval. It could trigger follow up actions dependent on the severity of the incident and so much more.