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Once you’ve got your opportunity tracker set up, you can enable notifications in your Champions channel to showcase when someone has submitted a new idea.

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Why set this up

Instant visibility

Your nominated group chat is alerted the moment a new opportunity is submitted

No extra admin

Notifications go straight to a pre-configured Teams chat, ready for review

Keep momentum high

Ensures opportunities don’t sit unacknowledged in SharePoint

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What you’ll need

Before you begin, make sure you have:
  • Your Opportunity Tracker SharePoint List where new submissions are stored
  • A Teams chat with all your champions
  • Access to Power Automate with permission to connect to both SharePoint and Teams

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Steps

1

Create your flow

  • Go to make.powerautomate.com and create a new Automated cloud flow
  • For the trigger, search SharePoint, then choose When an item is created
  • Connect to your Opportunities list
2

Add a Teams action

  • Click + New step → Microsoft Teams → Post a message in a chat or channel
  • Under Post as, select Flow bot
  • Under Post in, select Chat with Flow bot
3

Identify the target chat

In the Recipient field, paste the Chat ID for your pre-configured Teams chat.
To find the Chat ID, copy a full chat link and extract the portion after chat/ and before message/
4

Compose the message

In the Message field, paste and customise the notification text:
🚀 **New Opportunity Submitted!**

**Title:** @{triggerOutputs()?['body/Title']}
**Submitted by:** @{triggerOutputs()?['body/Author/DisplayName']}
5

Save & test

Save the flow and test it by submitting a new opportunity to confirm the chat notification is delivered.
Once configured, your Champions team will receive instant notifications whenever someone submits a new opportunity, keeping everyone engaged and informed.