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Delay Until with a parallel branch not working

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Posted on by stevenspray

Hi all

I've built a simple flow that should email someone until a certain variable I created is set. I'm using the Delay function with a Do Until and added a parallel branch like the below...

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As you can see, the variable on the left gets successfully set to a value on the left. Once the variable is set to a certain value, the branch on the right should stop, but it doesn't. The Do Until keeps running until all actions in it complete. Am I missing some setting somewhere or is the logic in my flow flawed? Any pointers appreciated. Here is the Do Until...

Flow Do Until

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Steven

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gazzo1967 1,151 on at

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Re: Delay Until with a parallel branch not working

@stevenspray
Ok what is happening is you need to set some variable checks to limit the process.
On your 'Do until'
(do you need 3 delays?)
i would have 'Set Variable' in your case 'Emailed Actioned is equal to No'
Then Send Email notifications
Then after emails set another variable to 'Emailed Actioned is equal to Yes'
This will tell the Do until to stop
HTH
Gary
Consider marking as accepted as this will help others (if you want to give Kudos that's nice too :))

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stevenspray 17 on at

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Re: Delay Until with a parallel branch not working

Hi @gazzo1967

My flow should email an approver reminders every 6 hours a total of three times, hence the 3 delays. I have set that variable to "No" already when I initialised it, in the step just before branching off.

Setting the "Emailed Actioned" variable to "Yes" (and stopping the "Do Until") should only happen if the approver has actioned the email. If the approver has not actioned the email, the Do Until should send an email reminder, with 6h delays in between, for a total of three times. The "Emailed Actioned" variable gets set to "Yes" after something gets posted into Teams but this does not seem to affect the parallel branch on the right with the Do Until

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stevenspray 17 on at

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Re: Delay Until with a parallel branch not working

Can anyone help?

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