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Sharepoint [Online] "When an item is created" not starting immediately (delayed)

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I have a workflow that was developed in a dev site, and then exported and imported into our production site.  There were some site parmeters that had to be updated, but we got that all configured correctly.

Now the issue is that our "When an item is created" flow, that would immediately start running in dev, does not start for almost 5 minutes.  It eventually kicks off and does its work, but if there were multiple items created during the "down time", they all end up doing basically the same thing.

 

What is going on?  Is there some kind of governor limit on my site that I am not aware of?  We have other flows that would run immediately when an item is created.  This one is admittedly more complicated, but not excessvely so.

 

I'm afraid my user isn't gonig to like waiting for this to work.  😞

 

 

  • GabrielStJohn Profile Picture
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    Re: Sharepoint [Online] "When an item is created" not starting immediately (delayed)

    Hey, @joshcsmith13!

     

    Thank you for posting on the Flow Community Forum! It appears as though @v-yuazh-msftwould like some more information in order to further assist you properly with your issue. Please share any additional information that was requested in order to decrease the amount of time that it will take for you to be assisted!

     

    Thank you for being an active member of the Flow Community!

     

    -Gabriel
    Flow Community Manager

  • v-yuazh-msft Profile Picture
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    Re: Sharepoint [Online] "When an item is created" not starting immediately (delayed)

    Hi @joshcsmith13,

     

    What flow plan are you using now?

     

    The flow has different check frequency for different flow plan as screenshot below:

     

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    Please check your flow plan to see what is the max check frequency for your plan.

     

     

    Best regards,

    Alice

     

     

  • Andy_the_OG Profile Picture
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    Re: Sharepoint [Online] "When an item is created" not starting immediately (delayed)

    Yes I'm seeing this same problem. Seems that the time to trigger is quite random, sometimes it's every minute and then the next day it takes 5 minutes to trigger.

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