{"id":110752,"date":"2016-10-22T02:49:48","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T09:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-automate\/attach-files-approvals\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T02:49:48","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T09:49:48","slug":"attach-files-approvals","status":"publish","type":"power-automate","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-automate\/attach-files-approvals\/","title":{"rendered":"Flow of the Week: Streamline approvals by sending files with approval requests."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On flow of the week, today we are going to show you how to send approval emails with attachments.<\/p>\n<p>In this example, we have a folder in SharePoint where project files are submitted for approval, and our flow is setup to generate an approval email to the project manager, who manage projects in BaseCamp 3.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" 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