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Parallel branch for reminders

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Posted on by SC-18100829-0
Hi All,
 
I have built this flow:
Which i think should send an approval out and if it hasn't been approved in a week, it sends a reminder to the approvers. That seems to work except i now have a couple of flows where the approval has been approved within a week but the reminder email has still been sent. Any ideas what i'm doing wrong?
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    David_MA 14,393 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at
    You need to slightly modify what you are doing. Delete the first delay action then move your second delay action before the e-mail. You will then add a condition before sending the e-mail to check if your condition has been met (the approval has been completed). If it hasn't, send the e-mail on the yes side and do nothing on the no side. It will look like this:
     
    I set an integer variable for the initial delay. In the above, the first reminder does not go out until 7 days. Then when the first reminder is sent, it updates the variable to 1 to send a daily reminder thereafter.

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