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 requester’s perspective.

Starting an approval

The easiest way to testcreating” this flow is to start a vacation request. To do so, follow these steps:

1. Navigate to the SharePoint list that was created as part of this exercise.
2. On the list, click New to create a new request item.
3. Fill out the form. Add a title, select the start and end dates, and click Save:

Figure 10.25 – Creating a new vacation request

4. 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 creating” approval flow itself. Finally, you triggered the flow. Next...