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Hello Everyone.

How can I make it so that my flow runs up to a certain time each day (e.g. 00:00), then waits for 30 minutes before restarting?

Many thanks.

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MichaelAnnis 5,727 Moderator on at

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I assume it is on a loop. Before your loop:

get CurrentDateTime

Set variable %LastStart% to %CurrentDateTime%
’here is your loop

get %CurrentDateTime%
Subtract dates

if %Subtract dates is (greater than interval of time you want it to run)

Wait 30 mins

get CurrentDateTime

Set variable %LastStart% to %CurrentDateTime%

End(IF)

and continue flow.

good luck.

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Thank you so much for replying @MichaelAnnis - let me try to get my head around this (comments are in bold).

get CurrentDateTime
Set variable %LastStart% to %CurrentDateTime%
’here is your loop - this is my flow
get %CurrentDateTime%
Subtract dates - not sure what you mean here? Do I subtract %LastStart% from %CurrentDateTime%?
if %Subtract dates is (greater than interval of time you want it to run) - how can this be >= 00:00 (midnight)?
Wait 30 mins
get CurrentDateTime
Set variable %LastStart% to %CurrentDateTime%
End(IF)

Thanks for any help provided!

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If you want to do midnight, you could just say, if day(CurrentDateTime) > day(LastStart). Instead of subtract dates.

and yes, your flow goes where you said.

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Thank you very much for your kind help @MichaelAnnis

When I subtract dates, what do I need the result to be in? Days, minutes, hours etc.?

Here is what I have - is it correct?

Start of my flow:

End of flow:

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Since you are just doing day over day, you no longer need subtract dates. You did it perfectly in your IF statement.

so the first screenshot should be before your loop, and the second screenshot (w/o the subtract dates and w/o the “Go to MainFlowStart”), should be immediately after you open your loop.

So it’s:

get date (this is just when the flow starts so we have something to compare to in the first day)

start loop

IF test

the rest of the loop

so, that if section is built into the loop, and that if section will reset the %LastStart% before it lets the loop proceed (after the 30 min wait). You should never need to go back to the beginning of the flow.

good luck. Sorry for the delay in response. It was an extremely busy week. Have a good one.

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Thanks again @MichaelAnnis - absolutely no need to apologise. I appreciate your kind help.

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