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Posted on 8 Aug 2021 03:26:09 by EdviconEdu

I have a bit of advanced flow. Conditions worked fine until it goes for around 10 steps in the flow. But once I started adding more connectors to the flow, conditions started working in the opposite way.

Ex: Condition I added for approval:

The response is equal to Approve

For Yes side: It runs when Reject the approval request
For No side: It runs when Approve the approval request

Then I have to edit and change the condition to "is not equal to". Then when I approve, it approves by going into Yes side. Does this make sense?

Also, if I edit the flow later, to add/ update anything else, flow again works fine. Means, I have to change that "is not equal to" again back to "is equal to".

This is not what should be happening. 'Yes' part should run when Approve. This works fine for my small flows. Please check.

This bug is failing our systems over and over again. Reported before. No action has been taken.

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Chidung 5 on 18 Jul 2022 at 15:56:27

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Re: Condition Check Failure (Approval)

Hi Ellis and thank you for taking the time to answer !
Seems like it's working fine with your conditions after several tests and I have to say I wouldn't have thought of that.

Many thanks.

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Ellis Karim 11,428 Super User 2025 Season 2 on 18 Jul 2022 at 14:19:43

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Re: Condition Check Failure (Approval)

Hi @Chidung

Please try the following condition, using the And operator:

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Chidung 5 on 18 Jul 2022 at 13:57:18

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Re: Condition Check Failure (Approval)

Hi everyone, sorry to dig up this topic but I'm having trouble with a condition check.
I'm creating a workflow for leave requests and what I want to do is if the value of the leave category is either a holiday (Public, religious, company) or a Birthday then I don't need to receive the approval.
Here's the condition (I use Category value as the trigger) :
I tried the opposite, putting the text between apostrophe, with just one condition but I receive the approval regardless and the If no scenario never plays out.

Anyone has an idea ?
Many thanks.

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EdviconEdu 12 on 11 Aug 2021 at 13:30:04

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Re: Condition Check Failure (Approval)

Hi @ekarim2020,

Thank you for the suggestion. It seems all flows are working fine as expected. We made several edits to the flows and didn't get issues like before.

BR,
Nimesh

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EdviconEdu 12 on 08 Aug 2021 at 10:13:25

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Re: Condition Check Failure (Approval)

Hi @ekarim2020,
I will set this condition and monitor for the next few days, and let you know. If this works as expected, will mark your suggestion as the solution. 🙂

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Ellis Karim 11,428 Super User 2025 Season 2 on 08 Aug 2021 at 10:09:36

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Re: Condition Check Failure (Approval)

Use Outcome for your condition, as this gives you entire outcome of the approval. Your approval can be sent to many approvers but we are not interested in the individual responses, we only want to know the final outcome.

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EdviconEdu 12 on 08 Aug 2021 at 09:32:42

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Re: Condition Check Failure (Approval)

This is what I am experiencing. Because of that, I have to set the condition "Is not equal to" te get the flow works correctly. Apologies for the text, I wrote using mouse. 🙂

Again if I edit and update anywhere in the flow at a later time, the flow goes back to working correctly. Then I have to change the condition back to "is equal to" where it should be the one in the first place.
The funny part is, if I update again, I have to set the condition to "is not equal to", to get the flow again works.

See, how hard this is. I don't know why they didn't find this bug.

FYI: Flow is designed correctly. I've other small flows where this approval works very fine. But all my flows with more steps face this issue.

Thanks.

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Ellis Karim 11,428 Super User 2025 Season 2 on 08 Aug 2021 at 06:33:06

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Re: Condition Check Failure (Approval)

Please could you post the clear screen shots of your flow to help understand what is going on.
Ellis

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