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Will we be able to use state machines in Flow?
Thanks.
here is how I implement state machines with Microsoft Flow
Right now this is the biggest limitation preventing me from leveraging MS Flow with clients.
Microsoft Flow currently flows in a single direction (downstream) which makes it really tough to design and implement approval-driven workflows. Without state-machines, it's really not possible to "reject to a specific step" and automate a system that accounts for the real world back and forth nature of workflows.
I've considered doing this with multiple flows that conditionally change-states (by starting another workflow), but it's quite cumbersome to assemble and pass meta-data between them.
I'd love if we had a "jump to step" action that could be called based on a condition.
Microsoft Flow is derived from Azure Logic Apps, and in Logic Apps also state machines are not available. WorkFlow Manager(WF Manager) and Flow can't work together. WF Manager is used by developers and Flow targets business users.
You can raise this as a feature request in Flow Ideas.
State machines are not available in Flow. But state machines are available in Microsoft WorkFlow Manager.
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