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How to make my flow wait the end of the foreach

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Posted on by RaphaelMelo

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I have flow to export data to a excel file, it receives a json as parameter from the powerapps and return the file path. in the middle of it, it's had a "apply to each" to add the json objects into the rows of an excel file. but when it returns the file path to download the for each it's not done yet and the powerapps download a file with only two or 3 lines of data. So, to get the complete file I have to wait some time and then go directly to path and download.

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Andrew_J 1,962 Moderator on at

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@RaphaelMelo

Add a delay step in the flow and set this for five minutes.

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RaphaelMelo 33 on at

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The delay doesn't solve the problem, cause if the "apply to each" runs longer than it the problem will continue.

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David_MA 14,918 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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I don't know that this will solve the issue, but I would create an int variable and populate it with the value of a length expression to tell the flow how many rows of data you have in your JSON data (maybe name it total rows). Then create another integer variable and set the default value to 0 (zero) (maybe named processed). Then in the apply to each, increment "processed" by 1 after each item is completed. Put the whole Apply to each within a Do until and set the logic to be where rows equals processed.

This isn't something I have tried before because I don't understand how your flow moves on to the next action before the apply to each is completed. It will be interesting to see if this solves the issue in case I encounter this.

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wyattdave 493 Moderator on at

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It looks like the issue is the Power App is timing out the flow. The App will only wait upto 2 minutes (I think). You need to do a polling flow, I wrote a guide here.

https://dev.to/wyattdave/how-to-power-apps-getting-polling-update-from-file-upload-547g

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David_MA 14,918 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Looks like I was at least on the right track with the do until. 🙂

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