Common troubleshooting tips for approvals

There are some common errors that you may run into when working with approval templates or building flows from scratch. The first thing I do when building these flows is to keep it simple. I focus on getting the flow to work, and then I start laying in the complexity in small increments. It’s easier to have a working base than build something where you are not sure where it is broken.

Tip

Another tip is to use a condition to help you determine where a flow is failing. For example, I was trying to build a flow that notified me when someone had submitted a timesheet. I could not get the flow to run, and when I tested it, it never returned a failure. So, what I had to do was add my trigger and one action and then create a condition to check if I met the condition. If the condition was yes, then it sent me a notification stating that it had been met, while if it was no, then it told me that I still had a problem. I did this with each...