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Hello everyone,

I have a flow that act when an item in sharepoint is created or modified and then it sends an API call via HTTP to a 3rd party software. The issue is when I update my list with many items, the 3rd party software can't support the demand of power automate...

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Is there a way to tell power automate, to perform the trigger and add the flow to a queue and the system empty the queue 1 flow at a time with an interval of 5mins ?

Like a recurring flow but with the trigger when a new item is added...

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Hi @Anonymous

You could implement concurrency controls so that the flow can only run 1 at a time.

You could also implement a delay in your flow at the end of the process to create the wait that you are suggesting.

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
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Hello everyone

I think I have almost the same problem, but with a small difference. My flow retrieves the last element of a SharePoint list and then increments this value by 1. The problem arises when multiple flows are triggered too quickly and so, for example, the value 5 is recognized twice as the "last value".
Since the flow is still continued with an approval process afterwards and can take a long time, I cannot set the value for the number of simultaneously executed flows to 1. The delay in the flow would not solve the problem, because only a certain time is added to the time of start .

Do you have any other ideas?

I would have thought of something like 1 minute delay between flows.

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