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Will a turned off flow run once the trigger is in play?

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Hello all,

I have a flow that is set to trigger once a year when the year rolls over. I have received an alert telling me that my flow is not running and will be turned off in 30 days. Does this mean that the flow won't trigger at the beginning of the year, or does it just mean that it won't run until then?

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Bronwyn

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Pstork1 68,707 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Unless you turn the flow back on at some point prior to the recurrence trigger the flow will not run. If you turn the flow back on it will trigger at the beginning of the new year. But I would wait until November/December to turn it back on.

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Is there any way of stopping it from being turned off?

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Hi @Bron,

As a workaround, you could set the Recurrence trigger to run it every day.

Then use formatDateTime() function to convert current date to "MM-dd", for example, if the date is first day of one year, do the following steps, or do nothing:

formatDateTime(utcNow(),'MM-dd')

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The only way to keep it from being turned off for inactivity would be to change the recurrence trigger to activate more frequently. I would set it to activate once a month on the first day of the month. Then have the first step check to see if its January 1. If not terminate the flow.

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Thanks to both of you. I have set it to trigger once a month, and will check it at the beginning of next month. Hopefully it will work!

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Bron

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