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@ScottShearer I have a flow with multiple parallel approvers, for example 3 or 4. All should get the approval notification, and each should approve independently. My flow is forcing the approvers to sequentially approve, that is, approver 3 does not get the approval request until 1 and 2 have responded. When I try to break the loop into two to get everyone to receive the approval, it doesn't work. My SharePoint list allows multiple users to be entered as approvers, I don't know in advance who or how many approvers. How can I force the approval to go through before I begin the wait for a response?

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By default, for each loops run sequentially. You can go to settings for the loop and turn on Concurrency. That will allow your approvals to run in parallel. This assumes that you have logic in your loop to assign a different approver to each approval. This will require other changes in your Flow as well. Let me know if you need more help.

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I see your point. I set the concurrence on the For Each and now my approvals are all created. However, the second approver's response oddly reset the status, which was set PRIOR to the For Each loop. So this solution pointed out another issue with my flow, so you solved TWO issues, one I did not even know about.

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