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Approval flow error

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Posted on by AR-23070514-0 35
While running the approval flow, we have created a timeout action it is running well. But it is showing error : "An action failed. No dependent actions succeeded."
 
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    S-Venkadesh 1,215 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at
     
    To handle timeouts, create multiple parallel branches and configure Run After conditions accordingly—one for Success, one for Timeout, and one for Failure.
    This ensures that when the approval action times out, the flow follows the correct execution path.
     
     
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    David_MA 14,956 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at
    The flow run did fail. A timeout is considered a failure. If you don't want to get this in your flow, follow the Compose 2 action with a terminate flow action, and set it to successful. For example:
     

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