Wait for an Approval Failing

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Posted on by NickSz

I have a flow which used switch to define the path by which the flow will travel. See Below:

When it gets to the Condition 4, the flow fails. See image below:

I thought it might be due to a bad connection, so I deleted the existing connection in the flow and created new ones, but the failure persist. The error states ApprovalSubcriptionNotAllowed, but in the same flow I have had sucess using one of the alternate cases in the switch.

The only other recourse I have yet to try is to delete my connection to approvals at the account level and try again. Does anyone have a clue as to what's going on?

Thank you.

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Jcook 7,783 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hello @NickSz

Can you try using Start and wait for approval action instead and let me know the results.
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Hi Josh,

Confirming success with Start and Wait for Approval:
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Yeah, it seems the Wait for an Approval action will fail if the approval has already been completed by the time the flow gets to the Wait... action. I was updating a SharePoint list in between the Start... and Wait... actions and the Update Item action occasionally takes longer than expected (usually only a second or two but I've seen 5 min once -- throttling from Microsoft?) so that the approval has already been completed.