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Flow reccurrence on different hours and different minutes

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Hi, I'm quite new to Power Automate and Flows. As a school we just started using Microsoft Teams for our students since this unfortunate situation with the Covid-19. 

I am trying to send a notification to all users in Teams to simulate a school bell (multiple occurrences a day). I've managed to create the flow that works every day on one certain time stamp. But I can't figure out how to do multiple a day.

I see you can select multiple hours and multiple minutes, but not a combination of that two.

The flow has to start at these 6 time stamps: 9:00, 10:30, 10:45, 12:15, 13:00, 14:45

Is it possible within one flow or do I have to make 6 seperate ones? With this code, it will start every given hour on every given minute

 

 

{
 "recurrence": {
 "frequency": "Week",
 "interval": 1,
 "timeZone": "W. Europe Standard Time",
 "startTime": "2020-03-20T08:00:00.000Z",
 "schedule": {
 "weekDays": [
 "Monday",
 "Tuesday",
 "Wednesday",
 "Thursday"
 ],
 "hours": [
 "9",
 "10",
 "12",
 "13",
 "14"
 ],
 "minutes": [
 0,
 15,
 30,
 45
 ]
 }
 }
}

 

 

 Hope someone can help.

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  • efialttes Profile Picture
    14,756 on at

    Not 100% sure, but I think you need at least 4 different flows. If so, you can use 'Save as' option to replicate your flow, then edit manually trigger on the copy.

    Let's hope somebody else can point us to a easier approach

    Thanx!

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    Microsoft Employee on at

    Yea, I figured out I could do it with 4 flows. But rather, if possible, I would like to make only one. If something has to change later, I would have to change all 4.

    I was thinking about starting it on all occurences and in the next step to compare the current time with the different timestamps. If the current time is equal to one of those 6, I could go on or otherwise stop the flow.

    But have no idea how to do it.

  • efialttes Profile Picture
    14,756 on at

    Hi!

    I was just thinking... you can have a single flow starting at the first ringbell, then use 'Delay' action block to start the next ringbell and so on.

    Hope this helps

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    That is an option, yes

    But I think it's not ideal. I will have to repeat the same process multiple times and again, when something has to change in the flow, I have to change it multiple times.

    I will try it for now, but hope there will be other suggestions too

  • efialttes Profile Picture
    14,756 on at

    Hi!

    I understand your concerns. Let's hope somebody else can point us to a more elegant simpler approach

    Ánimo!

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    Microsoft Employee on at

    I think I have it.

    I will let the flow start on all occurences. When it starts, it saves the current time as a string variable

    convertTimeZone(utcnow(),'UTC','W. Europe Standard Time','HH:mm')
    Then with a condition I check if the value is the same as one of my time stamps. If so I go on, if not it stops.

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