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Workaround for "Terminate" limitation inside "Apply to each"

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Hello everyone. We are trying to use attachment content from the list and pass it for approval. Would like to terminate the flow and send email if the content (approval) rejected. Seems like "Terminate" is not available in inside the Apply to each function. We did not specifically select "Apply to each", it was auto populated. Any available workarounds to achieve the goal?

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harshdeol 441 Moderator on at

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Hi @stpa ,
The goal is to send an email if the approval is rejected, correct?

>>To achieve this, In the Condition's "If no" section, add only the "Send an email (V2)" action.
If the Approval Outcome is Rejected, the flow will send an email and end the flow if there is no action configured after that. (Terminate is not necessary here in this case.)

Additionally, the "Apply to each" was added automatically as the "Get Attachments" returns the data in an array (because it may be possible that the list item contains more than one attachment).
If there are more than one attachment, this flow will create one approval for each attachment. If you want to send one approval for all the attachments of an item, please Append all attachments in an array and pass it to Approval.

Try it and let me know if you need further assistance.
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stpa 24 on at

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Thanks. The screenshot does not show it, but there are many flow steps after it.

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harshdeol 441 Moderator on at

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Hi @stpa ,
Then, do one thing: initialize a string variable at the beginning of the flow and set the variable to "Terminate" in the "If no" section of the condition after sending an email (V2) action.

After that, outside the "Apply to each" loop and before the "Update Status - Pending Finance Approval" action, add one more condition to check if the variable is equal to "Terminate."
>> If yes, use the Terminate action to end the flow.
>> Otherwise, it will proceed to the "If no" side where you can move all other Actions of the flow, including "Update Status - Pending Finance Approval."

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eliotcole 4,363 Moderator on at

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Perhaps in addition to Harsh Deol's suggestion you could swap the Apply to each / For each with a Do until / Until action, and setup a boolean variable to decide when it is done, and then when the VarTerminate is true also set the additional boolean to true to stop the Do until. (or use an 'or' condition for the do until)

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stpa 24 on at

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This is great and it did solve our problem. Thank you very much for your help!!

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harshdeol 441 Moderator on at

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You're welcome @stpa.
Happy to help 🙂

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