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Posted on 7 Dec 2020 18:20:00 by ford_sopris

I'm new to Power Automate and this is probably a newbie question -- I have created 2 branches (parallel branches). I now want to use the outputs of the second branch in some downstream components and want to join the 2 branches to a single one again. Not sure if thatis the right terminology. Any help would be appreciated. Here is a screenshot of one that does this but I don't know how they did it 🙂

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dscull on 16 Apr 2024 at 21:20:19

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Re: How to bring two branches back to one

What I needed to do was create a Scope and put everything in that and then copy the scope and remove everything after the added parallel branch and then add in a new item at the very bottom and paste in the copied scope. The issue I see is that you have variables and variables won't go into a scope. So unless you need the variables there then I would move them before the parallel branch - issue is I can't see what those are from the screen shot. Hope that helps or helps others.
HeihoSilver 87 on 29 Feb 2024 at 10:23:07

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Re: How to bring two branches back to one

It seems the solution is applied for the end of the flow.
I use parallel branch in the middle and at some point need to add a new parallel branch. How to join the flow in the middle?
Chris110 90 on 20 Nov 2023 at 18:55:32

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Re: How to bring two branches back to one

Thanks - understood this is a workaround. Just wanted to see if it was on their radar! Since I'm assuming at some point the classic view may go away.
Pstork1 66,174 Most Valuable Professional on 20 Nov 2023 at 18:49:49

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Re: How to bring two branches back to one

It is my understanding that it is on their backlog list of things to fix. This is a workaround that you can use in the meantime.
Chris110 90 on 20 Nov 2023 at 17:59:42

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Re: How to bring two branches back to one

This is very helpful information! Do you know if there's a plan for this to be fixed in the new designer view?
Pstork1 66,174 Most Valuable Professional on 17 Nov 2023 at 17:57:11

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Re: How to bring two branches back to one

There is a workaround for the new designer. If you go to the bottom of one of your branches and add the next action you can then go in and add the actions in the other branches using the runafter settings. That will bring the branches back together again.
ChrisCasingena 2 on 17 Nov 2023 at 17:12:15

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Re: How to bring two branches back to one

I've noticed they've removed the new step button at the bottom of the new Power Automate interface and now I can't work out how to rejoin parallel branches...
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Pstork1 66,174 Most Valuable Professional on 07 Dec 2020 at 18:33:54

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Re: How to bring two branches back to one

Just a simple example in the screenshot below. If you click on the '+' below an action in the Branch it will add a new action to that branch. But if you click on the 'New step' button it will add an action to the flow below both of the branches. That will bring the branches back together.