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Prevent multiple approval flow from retriggering

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I am building a flow with parallel approvals from a form library. The flow is triggered when a new form is submitted or existing form is modified. The flow has multiple parallel approvals once it starts. Each level will set approval status and approvers comments if approved or rejected. This is all well and good. The main issue is that each time any of these approvals (approve or reject) changes, the flow retriggers.

 

How do I stop from this happening? 

  • sranacdw Profile Picture
    48 on at
    Re: Prevent multiple approval flow from retriggering

    It is an InfoPath Form library in SharePoint Online. 

    Yes, the flow updates few fields to mark the status of that approval either complete or in progress. Hope that answers

  • efialttes Profile Picture
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    Re: Prevent multiple approval flow from retriggering

    Hi!

    " The flow is triggered when a new form is submitted or existing form is modified"

    ...so are you talking about 'Sharepoint List items' or 'Sharepoint library files? Or, are you talking about 'Microsoft Forms?

    Assuming Sharepoint, does either your Flow or the Approvers update the item/file that triggers the logic?

     

    If so, you need to choose a strategy to avoid neverending loops. Several approaches discussed here:

    https://powernimbus.com/2019/06/microsoft-flow-avoiding-the-sharepoint-list-update-trigger-infinite-loop/

    Hope this make sense

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