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Hi all Bit concerned about transitioning to flow. I have a batch process I run every night it uses fetchxml to grab an array of assets in dynamics field service. It then runs a workflow on all cases (incidents) via fetch that counts breakdowns in last x months and updates a field on the asset. It pulls around 1500 assets and goes for just under 2 minutes however lately may be once a month I have a failure when it breaches 2 minutes otherwise it works well. I have tested in sandbox with flow however can take approximately 15minutes to complete, basically it: 1. Reccuring schedule trigger 2. List Records with fetch for customer asset and gets customerassetid 3. Apply for each 4. List Records using fetch for incidents (cases) by dynamically passing customerassetid to fetch statement and filter on incident type and date. 5. Update Record by doing length on List Records. It works however is very slow compared to my batch / workflow method. Am I using a poor flow method to complete task? Thanks Antc

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sukanya28 4 on at

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Re: Flow taking too long

I have turned on Concurrency control, but still it takes too long. It's 19 minutes, the flow is still running.
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@antc

No issues if which I am aware.
antc 9 on at

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@ScottShearer

Fantastic solution went from 17 minutes to 1.2 minutes.

Any issues with setting parallelism t0 50 default seems to be 20?

Thanks Scott 😁
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ScottShearer 25,208 Most Valuable Professional on at

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@antc

Go to the settings for each of your loops and turn on Concurrency control - this will allow the loops to run concurrently rather than sequentially.
antc 9 on at

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I don't think I can as it needs to be in a loop as "List Assets" returns around 700 assets.
v-alzhan-msft on at

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Hi @antc ,

Please move the List cases action outside the Apply to each, it would faster your flow.

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Alice

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antc 9 on at

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Hi Alice

Thanks for answering!
Basically in:
List assets is a fetch for certain assets ~ 1000 results
List cases is another fetch that gets passed the GUID and the returns those related cases that meet 1 of 3 conditions
Then the last action is update the asset with total cases per asset.
I don't think ODATA will help any more than my fetch as assets to cases is 1:M.
v-alzhan-msft on at

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Hi @antc ,

Could you please share a screenshot of the configuration of your flow?

I suggest that you could add the filter query in the "Get items" action, it would take less time when run the flow.

The link below for the Filter query for your reference:

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/apply-filter-query-with-get-items-sharepoint-action-in-microsoft-flow/

https://sharepains.com/2018/11/12/sharepoint-get-items-odata-filter-query/#:~:text=An%20OData%20filter%20query%20can%20optimize%20your%20flows,find%20yourself%20many%20times%20dealing%20with%20list%20items.

Best regards,

Alice