Recurrence Start and Finish Dates

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Hoping there is a solution to my current issue but from what I am reading there may not be.

Currently, I am using flows between Forms for my clients and Planner for my team.

The project we are struggling on are work permits.

Currently, my clients apply for a work permit are needing to fill out the Form each day / week for permits so that each time, the task to complete this permit drops into Planner for my team to action.

This is obviously not best case scenario from the clients perspective as some of the works are going on for up to 3 months.

What I would like is for my clients to be able to fill out the Form and request a permit for 6 weeks between Date A and Date B. I would then like the follow to automate a task to drop into their Planner on Date A and a new task drop in each day (or week dependant on the task) until Date B.

I tried to pull this off with Recurrence but there doesn't seem to be the ability to set an end date.

Hoping there is a way around this?

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Hi!
So, I guess your form requests a 'Task type', a 'StartDate' and an 'End Date', then you have a Flow whise trigger is 'When a forms rsponse is received', and:
* for Type-A tasks you need your current Flow to create a daily task for each day inside that time period,
* for Type-B tasks you need your current Flow to create a weekly task for each week inside that time period,
Is my assumption correct?
IF so, the magic can be done by means of initializating a variable of type string (let's call it 'targetDate') with StartDate and adding a DoUntil loop, so this loop will be in charge of creating a Task and calculating next target Date (i.e. adding 1 day for Type-A tasks, adding 7 days for Type-B tasks). DoUntil condition rule should verify targetDate is not later than End Date

Hope this makes sense

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Thanking you and this makes sense however not sure on the flow of how to make this happen?

This is the current flow:

Just trying to figure out how the Do Until Loop fits in and how it delays to be completed each x 1 day etc?

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