Get notified when a flow is completed in a canvas app

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Is there a way to be notified in a canvas app when a flow has completed?

I have a flow that gets triggered on insert of a record into a table Dataverse (Note: Not triggered within the canvas app). This flow takes 2-3 minutes to complete, so I want to advise the user in the canvas app when it's completed so they can then do their next action within canvas.

Is this possible?

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Khaledta 79 on at

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Hi,

You could put this as a last step in your flow 🙂

There is also Powerapps Notification, which you can use to send notification to just mobile powerapps app(Not working on browser)

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bfausti 195 on at

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Thanks for your response.
This is not suited in my context as the user logged into the app needs to know when the flow has finished. So, a notification or label getting updated within the canvas app would be ideal for this situation.

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Khaledta 79 on at

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Use "Powerapps Notification" and push parameter

Then update the app context based on parameter.

Hope that help you.

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bfausti 195 on at

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Hi thanks again, but the canvas app does not run on a mobile it runs on a desktop website.

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WarrenBelz 153,079 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @bfausti ,

The easiest way would be to send the user's email to a field in the target table and email the user at the end of the Flow. I know it is not in the app, but you cannot "talk" to an app by external means. As an alternative you might think of setting up a timer and running it every minute looking for something unique that the Flow changes, then alerting the user when this happens.

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Khaledta 79 on at

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You may use flowsessions table to update and read flow status.

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bfausti 195 on at

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Thanks, I will look into this option. The other alternative is the flow runs on average the same amount of time so I could just show a message after that period. Not ideal but could work for what I need as this flow creates the same datasets each time.

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TxTechnician 98 on at

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Can you recommend any resources to learn how to use "flowsessions table"?

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