How to add a Wait/delay inside ForAll

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Posted on by Naviya89

I am trying to send mails in PowerApps using a flow.

It will be for multiple users. There is a ForAll and inside that there is another ForAll.

Inside one of the ForAll I will patch new records to a SharePoint list.

Then I call my flow to send emails to those records in that SharePoint list.

Once I send the emails I will delete all the records from that List.

Since my flow takes few seconds to run, but by the time it will run records of the Sharepoint list will be deleted.

What I am trying to achieve is how to add a delay between running the flow and deleting the records in the Sharepoint list inside ForAll.

Sample Code;

ForAll(

XXXList,

ForAll(

XXXList2,

If(conditon=true ,

Patch(add new records to xxxList3);

);

FlowSendEmails.Run();

***I want to add a wait/delay between running the flow and deleting records of the list

Delete( xxxList3);

);

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Try adding a Delay to your Flows

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Naviya89 54 on at

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Adding a delay / delay until to the flow will not help as the data will be deleted in the SharePoint list after calling the flow in PowerApps. Sharepoint List's data will be deleted and updated inside the Forloop.

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Oh sorry for the misunderstanding.
You can put a timer in the Power App. Its a little bit of work. Shane Young shows you how in this video. PowerApps Timer Control - YouTube The functionality your probably looking for is at about the 12 minute mark of the video.
You also may want to hide some of the controls Shane shows.

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Hi mate @Naviya89 ,

I was having the same issue and I have tried to modify the "Concurrency Control" in the Power App trigger in my flow.
Enable it, reduce the number of run to 1 and it works well.
Hope it helps

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For posterity, you can pause the ForAll() processing of the current iteration by having your code do something (anything) with the return of the flow. This works inside and outside loops. Assume the value "output" is what you set up in a "Respond to PowerApps" action at the end of your flow. Processing will wait for your flow to return before resuming because the function it is in depends on its output.

ForAll(
XXXList,
ForAll(
XXXList2,
If(conditon=true ,
Patch(add new records to xxxList3);
);
);
Collect(colTemp, {junk:FlowSendEmails.Run().output});
Delete( xxxList3);
);
Clear(colTemp);

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David_RO 17 on at

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Hello, not working for me :

ForAll(
DocListToAdd.AllItems;
Collect(testcol;
'MyFlow'.Run(6 parameters).result);;
Notify("test");;
Notify(Last(testcol).Value)
);;

it displays "test" directly, without waiting the end of the flow, and of course, the last notify doesn't display anything

EDIT: well it was because the response action in Power Automates was flagged as asynchronous.

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