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Posted on 31 May 2018 08:32:18 by Ndewitt 136

I have a flow that is triggered when a Dynamics record is created or updated, but it either takes absolutely ages to trigger (20+ mins), when it says it should take 1 minute, or it doesn't trigger until I go to the flow and turn it off and back on again.

 

I had the same for another flow that was supposed to be triggered at 5pm last night, when I checked it at 18:30, it hadn't run, turned it off and back on and it ran straight away (even though it was way past 5pm) so what is happening here, why are my flows not starting, and why does the trigger seem to be cached somewhere until I turn the flow off and back on?

 

This unreliability makes it very difficult to demonstrate it's potential to any senior members of staff.

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  • vandanakonda Profile Picture
    vandanakonda 6 on 03 Jun 2020 at 16:41:02
    Re: Flows not triggering

    Can you give example of what you are trying to do ?  I am able to work well with flows and they all work.

    Maybe I can help.

  • MannyO1 Profile Picture
    MannyO1 2 on 17 May 2020 at 23:33:19
    Re: Flows not triggering

    I am having a similar problem.

    I wrote a flow which is triggered by a recurrent schedule and refers to dates on an excel file domiciled on Sharepoint for it to run. 

    I have tested it and its fine whenever tested. However, it always sends a reminder a day late after the scheduled dates, and sometime when i go back to edit or tweak the excel document, it fails to pick the dates and sometime it wont even trigger at all. Keeping in mind that I have implemented all that was said earlier in this thread.

     

    I was almost inviting the execs after the test was successful only for it to send the reminder late.

     

    Can someone please help

     

     

  • vandanakonda Profile Picture
    vandanakonda 6 on 01 May 2020 at 21:10:50
    Re: Flows not triggering

    Hi

    I tried for an entire and I got it working.

    Maybe if you can give me details, I can help.

    Thanks

    V

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    Community Power Pla... on 11 Nov 2019 at 11:15:26
    Re: Flows not triggering
    Same frustrations this side Client had on premise with SP designer reusable workflow,(seeing that they have 30 libraries for approval). working fine, Migrated to Cloud a year ago still working fine until lately, response is slow and according to MS posting they recommend going over to flow. I have tried it a few months ago and after numerous frustrations left it. Decided today to approach it with an open positive mind / attitude. That did not last long, back to the same issues as before: Slow Not responding Modern view not enforcing metadata, which I need to approvals Do not detect the site / libraries although I am logged in Have to manually change all connections, not detecting the connections which I am logged in with Have to add a step and settings for ETAG Do not accommodate for reusable approval workflows This is more a massive downgrade than an improvement. So far no benefits for any of my clients.
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    Beejey007 6 on 13 Aug 2019 at 01:55:47
    Re: Flows not triggering

    Hi I have created 3 flows and none of them has ever worked, 

     

    very discouraging

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    sandeepnmenon Microsoft Employee on 27 Nov 2018 at 09:27:07
    Re: Flows not triggering

    What is the solution to the flow not getting triggered (not the recurring flow)?

    I am facing similar issue.

     

    When I am in the test mode of the flow, it triggers immediately, but outside test mode, it is not getting triggered unless I do a blank edit and save of the flow.

     

    Please help as this is blocking our design.

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    Community Power Pla... on 23 Aug 2018 at 13:43:27
    Re: Flows not triggering
    Wow this is a good point to remember, thanks for sharing your findings.
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    Ndewitt 136 on 12 Jun 2018 at 07:58:05
    Re: Flows not triggering

    Ok so it turns out if you leave the 'Minutes' box blank, it doesn't run on the hour. Now that I have set the minutes box to 0, it runs at 17:00.

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    Ndewitt 136 on 08 Jun 2018 at 08:10:53
    Re: Flows not triggering

    Hi @v-yuazh-msft,

     

    Yes, it's set for 17:00, and the Time Zone is set to UTC+00:00 - It definitely seems to be supported to select a Time Zone in the Recurrence trigger according to the UI that comes with it, and it did start running an hour earlier when I selected the correct time zone.

     

    Recurrence.png

    Granted as we are on British Summer Time right now, we are an hour ahead, but then I would expect it to run an hour earlier, not 35 minutes late.

     

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    Thank you for the help, it's much appreciated.

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    v-yuazh-msft on 08 Jun 2018 at 07:57:41
    Re: Flows not triggering

    Hi @NickDewitt,

     

    Do you set the flow run at 17:00 in your flow?

    The trigger "Recurrence" trigger would run the flow with the time that you scheduled with UTC time.

     

    However, the scheduled time in the "Recurrence" trigger could only support the UTC time and schedule a flow with a local time is not supported in microsoft flow currently.

     

    All times in Microsoft Flow are in Universal Time by default

     

    You could refer to link below to know the UTC time now:

    https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone/utc

     

     

    Best regards,

    Alice

     

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