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Hi,

I’ve been asked to complete a small project that an ex-employee started, but I’m a newbie at SharePoint lists and Power Automate/Flow. So, I could use some tips or direction.

The previous employee created a SharePoint site and created a List. There is a button on the list to add items, which opens a small form with fields to fill in and a button to Submit the form. So far, pretty straight forward. But that is as far as she got.

So, I’m looking at the Submit button and figured I needed to add a flow. I clicked on Power Automate on the left and created a new flow from a template that is called: Add an item to SharePoint and send an email. Looks perfect.

My problem is right from the start. How do I link the button to this Flow and when I look into the Flow, I cannot figure out how to specify the SharePoint site or the list? It pre-populated with dynamic content but I don’t know how to fill those fields. Same thing for the email part, the form has an employee field and a supervisor field. I want to send the email to the employee and copy the supervisor. Not sure how to set that up.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? I’ve spent the afternoon looking at search results on tutorials and how-tos but can’t find what I’m looking for. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

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The form will either be a standard SharePoint form, or one Customised with PowerApps. If customised with powerapps you’d be better maybe triggering a flow from there.

Assuming you want the flow to run after the item is created, the just go into power automate and create the flow there using the trigger when a new item is created or modified (in SharePoint). There you can pick site and list and off you go creating your flow.

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