How do you create an equivalent of 'Start a task process' in a SharePoint Online Flow?

Question

In SharePoint 2013 you could 'Start a task process' in the workflow as seen in the image below, this would create an approval task list where all of the workflow tasks would reside in . I can't find an equivalent option to this feature in SharePoint Online (Flow). Can you guide me in the right direction?

Answer 1

Hi @Haz ,

As far as I know, there is no 'Start a task process' in the flow. Instead, you could use "Start and wait for an approval" action in Power Automate/flow. Please refer to this article for more:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/canvas-apps/sharepoint-scenario-approval-flow

What's more, you don't have to create tasks in the task list any more. With this action, wou can simply approve/reject the approval through email. Like the below:

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Answer 2

Hi @Haz ,

The entral repository for the all approvals emails is in the flow page. As the bleow picture shows:

And you could add the item url which need to be approved in the approval.

The approval can be re-assignned:

If you really need to create task in the task list, you could add action Create Item in the flow to create task in the task list: