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Child flow failing due to timeout and starting again

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Hi Guys,

I have a flow that sends an approval request, I have set the timeout to 10 minutes to allow me to test the timeout actions. My flow looks like this:

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After 10 minutes, the flow timeouts and the Timeout container runs, the flow fails as expected but it starts again straight away. The parent flow that calls the child flow is turned off.

 

Any suggestions?

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    289 on at
    Re: Child flow failing due to timeout and starting again

    I worked it out, I said that the parent flow was turned off, but didn't realise that the parent flow run from earlier was still running. I think in order for the parent flow to stop, the child flow must run a 'respond to flow' action, I've added one of these below my timeout path and the parent flow is now closing when the child fails

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