advice on running parallel branches

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Hi guys,

I have a flow that I needed to run a parallel branch for the flow to continue. The reason I did this was because the Parse JSON action was failing due to the schema. What I found was depending on the response of the HTTP action that changed the schema slightly. So i added the branch with 2 Parse actions with different schemas. I then came across another item where the schema was different so created a third branch.

What im seeing now is that flows fail (even though one of the branches run) or in some cases 2 or all 3 run

My question is, is there a better way to do this or something like a try branch 1 first and then go to branch 2 etc... ? Would adding the actions to a Scope be a better way of doing this?

Thanks,
David

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Re: advice on running parallel branches

I don't really understand what you are trying to do.

However, you can go to each of the steps "Configure Run After" and then set each one to "is successful" AND "has failed". So this is saying to run the step after the previous step is either successful or failed.

That will keep your flow running.

I probably wouldn't set it up like that since I wouldn't want things running after a failure, and not knowing why it failed. But depending on what you are doing like if it is a simple task and you are the only person using it then it could force it to work.

Don't really know the answer for organizing a better flow, but this setting is a potential option.

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Re: advice on running parallel branches

thanks @wskinnermctc for your reply

So I built this flow a while back when I was still starting out. After I wrote this post I thought perhaps I don't need the parse function (as all it was doing was getting a value for Quantity).

So I used an expression in a compose action direct from the HHTP body and getting the same result - so removed all parse actions and ultimately the parallel actions. Its much simpler now.

Sometimes writing it out is all that's needed to come to the answer. Appreciate you replying though

David

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