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For context, I'm calling each workflow a "Watcher". I am trying to run 4 instances of a watcher at once.

The workflow of each watcher is as follows:

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1. Wait for a file to be created in a specific folder with a specific name

2. Open that file with a specific program

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I want to run 4 instances of this, each instance waiting for a different file with a different name to be created. These come in at random times on a specific day of the week. So, for example, I want the Watcher to start Watching every Tuesday at 7am.

I've tried using the Power Automate Cloud Parallel Process with the recurring trigger to run the workflows in parallel, but it appears that it's not concurrent. Power Automate will queue all 4 Watcher workflows, but only one can run at a time. This is a huge bottleneck and is pretty dumb. Or I'm dumb, which is totally possible.

How can I run 4 instances of a workflow concurrently, so that anytime a file that my watcher is watching for is uploaded, it'll act on it right away, regardless of the status of the other watchers?

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Power Automate Desktop

Using flows

Hi @KP-28011829-0

Just to make sure I am clear, you have only 1 flow but want it to watch for 4 files?

1. I would not schedule it, because then the only way to do it would be to add secondary Triggers that wait for the files, which you could do but I do not recommend it

2. Create 1 flow. Have trigger conditions that it will only trigger if its Tuesday between X and Y times or whatever you want, don't schedule it

3. In the Trigger, go to settings and make sure Split is on, so that it will run multiple instances, so if 4 files are dropped at the same time, you will get 4 instances of the flow.

Oh and you can add a trigger condition for file names or contains or extension or whatever you want.

P.S. you aren't stupid but I get that feeling about myself all the time lol. Please let me know if this helps it's how I would configure it (just leave it on)

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Thank you!
Sincerely, Michael Gernaey