Update File Properties in SharePoint handling locked file

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Hi Everyone,

I have a Flow which is triggered on the create or update of a document in a SharePoint library.

The last step of the flow updates the file properties. The Flow fails if the file is locked by the user. How can I force a wait and/or retry until the lock is removed to ensure the document properties are updated?

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Hi,

You there are a few ways that this has been answered so far but if I were you I would go with the simplest set up. Take a look at the communities post below; and copy its suggestions for your flow. It would basically run the exact same way and it should achieve what you are looking to do.

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Building-Flows/retry-flow-after-failure/td-p/148790

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Thanks @alrez

That wasn't the right solution for my problem.

https://sharepains.com/2019/09/27/retrying-after-failures-in-microsoft-flow/ gave me a good start to finding the solution.
I found that the body of the failing step contained the error message and status code. So I added a Scope and configured it to run after the initial Update action failed.

First I parsed the JSON of the body from the failed step to get the Status code, which I assigned to a variable called ErrorStatus.

I then added a Do...Until loop set to run until the ErrorStatus was 100.
I repeated the update action and configured the run after fail to update the ErrorStatus.
I then added another step configured to run after the previous step was skipped to Set the ErrorStatus to 100 to exit the loop.

I will probably refine this but it's doing what I need it to.

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