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Do Until - Need help understanding limits

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Posted on by jg224

Can someone help me make sense of the limits on do until? I understand the Timeout is basically how long the Flow action will run until it stops, but Count is what gets me. Does it run "100" times immediately? Are they spaced out? Do I need to incorporate some delays?

For reference, my Flow below has a Do Until a SharePoint List column meets the criteria. The column is tied to previous Flow steps for multiple Approvals. Ideally I'd like the Do Until to check the column every couple of hours.

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RezaDorrani 12,143 on at

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Hi @jg224

100 specifies - it will run the loop max 100 times
you can increase to a number depending upon the license

Yes, add a delay within do until

for example if you add a delay of an hour
then it will execute loop 1, delay and then loop again depending upon the condition

Check limits and configuration:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/flow/limits-and-config

Also, since you are checking the sharepoint column - its value will never change says flow has reference to its last value.
Create a variable and sets its value to the column
then in the do until loop, read value again and set the value to variable
this way, variable always has the latest vlaue to compare

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Reza Dorrani

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@RezaDorrani - I have an approval action in a do until. Loop is running to check if user attached something in listitem before approving, If approver approvers before it assigns task again.

Now approver can take say 3 days to approver. What should be the limits of Do until ? If I set to 100 and P1M [I guess 1M is 1 month].. will flow execute 100 occurrences in a month? What I have seen is that flow executes these occurrences within few minutes itself.

I need to use this because Flow lacks Stages like SPD. Flow is definitely not ready to meet SharePoint Approvals.

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On the free version, are we limited to 99 loops of the do until activity?

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@RezaDorrani @PrasadAthalye Hi guys,

Would you be able to confirm if the below flow is set correctly to trigger further actions when the file is no longer checked out to anyone? Currently my flow continues to run even though is not checked out anymore.

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dperez13 432 on at

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does the delay have to be at the beginning or can it be at the end , i.e.

do until - > get item - > send email -> delay 1 day
versus
do until -> delay 1 day -> get item -> send email.

will these more or less function the same as in send one email per day until condition is met?

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