Sharepoint document approval - select approver

Question

Hello. I’m looking to implement a document approval process. I can see flows using the approval function in SharePoint. However, I require the user who is submitting the document for review and approval to be able to select the reviewer to whom they need to send the approval for the selected document. Alternatively, if I have a metadata column with a “reviewer” name on the document - is there a way I can have the approval flow look to that column when performing the approval flow. The reviewer will not always be their manager so the user submitting the document for approval needs to be able to somehow choose the approver on a document by document basis.

Answer 1

Hello @Nicholas M ,

Welcome to Q&A Forum!

Please follow the steps:

1.Sign in the Document library as an admin and create the [Reviewer] column (Person or Group)

2.Library settings >> Advanced settings >> Enable "Allow management of content types"

3.Go back Library Settings page, scroll to Content Types section and click "Document"

4.On the List Content Type page, scroll to Columns section and click [Reviewer]

5.On the Change Content Type Column page, select "Required" option.

6.Go back Document library page, click Automate >> Power Automate >> Create a flow

7.Approval Flow

8.Save and Test flow

Thanks,
Echo Du

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