Do until - Boolean variable - email

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Posted on by SamHarland97

Hi everybody,

I thought I had a solution for this form my last post but I am still having trouble with the attached flow.

The 'Do Until' isn't recognising that the variable is true. What I want to happen is until the approval has been approved to send a reminder email every day.

Any help appreciated, thank you.

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ScottShearer 25,212 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Re: Do until - Boolean variable - email

@SamHarland97

I think what is happening is that your loop is timing out. A Do Until loop will time out after 1 hour by default. If you click on "Change limits" here is what you'll see"

To change the limit to 29 days:
manuelstgomes 6,625 on at

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Re: Do until - Boolean variable - email

Hi

The "Do Until" operation is like breaking pasta in half for Italians. You should never do it :).

All kinds of hurt can come from it. May I suggest another approach?

Separate into two Flows:

Triggers the approval and waits for the reply (what you have on the left branch). Save that the approval process started somewhere.

Have another Flow that periodically triggers that checks if finalized the approval and, if not, send a notification.

The idea is to have things as deterministic as possible, and with this approach, you can end up in a case where the approval already ended and the Flow keeps on running until the timeout. Flows should start and finish as fast as possible.

I know that some people don't agree with me, and this is a dividing topic, but the "Do until," in my opinion, should be avoided as much as possible.

Cheers

Manuel

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