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I am using Planner to and Flow to automate workflow to increase efficiency and stop jobs from falling through in certain locations. After a while, I figured out a method to actually check if a SPECIFIC task planner is complete (WHY is this not an existing task already? A trigger for ANY task complete exists, but not Specific 😐 ). Anyways, I have 26 specific must have, and already trimmed as much as possible, steps in a job workflow. I am using to C# and c++ programming, and we have functions/methods there to take a chunk of steps into a single step. How can I do that with this so I can reduce the work production time from up to a week down to maybe an hour or two- while also reducing the complexity of the code.

(Note: I did fix setting variable to itself)

I used a single variable "NextTaskStatus" so I did not have to keep making a new variable and then having a giant list of variables being wasted when 1 can do its job; either way would take a whole task slot. I set NextTaskStatus to "Get A Task->Percent Complete", and then pause for 20 seconds so that computation is not wasted doing 60 checks in a few seconds. The Create Planner Task could stay out of said 'function/method', but would be nice to make as a single 'create task and wait till task complete'/'CreateWaitPlannerTask' method.

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Hi @Anonymous ,

Do you want to check if a new task has been completed?

Please share more details on your scenario.

I have created a flow likes below to get notified when a new task has been completed.

Trigger the flow by a button and add a text input control.

Initialize an integer variable named as Test.

Create a bucket, then create a task. Specify the task title with the button input.

Then add a do-until loop with its condition configured as variables(‘test’) is equal to 100.

Within the loop, add a delay action (1minute delay), then get a task. And set variable action to set its value as dynamic content Percent Complete from the previous action.

Under the loop, add action send me a mobile notification.

Images for your reference.

Best regards,

Mabel

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My code works; it creates a task and waits for the specific task to be completed. What I am here for, is how I can now take this set of actions and shrink it down because I have a 20+ tasks in the flow that have to be checked, and it is excessive to have to manually go and create the same chunk over and over again. Is there a way i can make some kind of method/function similar to C# where you combine a bunch of lines of code, down to a single line to call- although in this case, it would be flow tasks being condensed. This would specially need to be important and extremely useful if I have to make an alteration to ALL 20+ of these to add mobile notifications or specific email notifications.

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Hi @Anonymous ,

Please consider using action List tasks.

The following flow for your reference:

Best regards,

Mabel

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