Automating work flow

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I am attempting to automate a work flow process. I have two requirements that I am wondering if power automate can achieve.

1. Trigger my flow when a file is created in a folder. This folder is on our network drive not SharePoint.

2. In the flow if a user/approval does not approve the file send an email reminder. (Daily/Weekly)

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Will this be possible?

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Pstork1 68,273 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Re: Automating work flow

You will need an on-premises gateway, which requires a Premium license. But yes both of those can easily be accomplished using a flow.

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Re: Automating work flow

Hi @aishak12 ,

In addition, you could use this trigger for requirement 1.

For requirement 2, you could create a secheduled flow (Daily/Weekly) to retrieve records which haven't been approved and send emails .

Best Regards,

Wearsky

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Re: Automating work flow

Thank you. This was very helpful, could you show me an example of how the requirement 2 will look in the flow.

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Re: Automating work flow

Here's a screenshot of the overall reminder approach and a detailed view of each parallel branch scope.

Scope that sends the periodic reminder

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Re: Automating work flow

Thank you I have set everything up including the Gateway. Could you show me what is inside the those variable's?

What should be my value for the variable's in both scopes.

Appreciate your help.

Thanks

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Re: Automating work flow

The first one is just a boolean and when you are ready to exit it is set to True. The second is just a counter that counts how many time periods have passed. Again, when you are ready to exit set it to a number bigger than the number of time periods you are waiting. For example if you are waiting 8 hours total with a delay of 15 minutes, then the 8 hours is up when 32 of those delays have passed. If you want to exit early you set the loop count to something higher than 32.

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