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I am currently trying to troubleshoot why this flow is constantly looping after sending an approval email. Is there a way to break the cycle. As you can see a terminate has been added at the end, though, this still allows the loop to continue. Any advice is appreciated.

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Rhiassuring 8,692 Moderator on at

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Hi there,

Your terminate is outside of your loop. It has no effect on the loop.

Your loop looks like it's going through every single output from your Get Items, sending an email with "Options", and then sending another email if the Selected Option is equal to Yes. It's going to do that for every single item, it has no reason to stop.

Can we see what your "Get Items" looks like? Are you trying to only retrieve one result?

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Jetsam 14 on at

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Unfortunately I cannot put the terminate inside of the condition, thus why it is there now.

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Jetsam 14 on at

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As files are moved from different folders, and updated with correct metadata items, we want only make sure that one email sent to the correct people as everything has been migrated. This is why we implemented this particular solution to ask us to send an email out by first asking us, whether the changes are warranted or not.

The send email with options is working perfectly but it keeps looping regardless of choosing yes or no. The ideal would to break the loop once.

When you say "get items" are you referring to "Get files"?

How do you know which values are getting from the section or dynamic link?

Since a lot of metadata we would like pull as much as possible to in order craft a good message.

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Here is revised flow with a variable, designed to try to escape from the loop.

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Rhiassuring 8,692 Moderator on at

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It looks like your revision is another Apply to Each (3) - and the Apply to Each (4) won't be affected by that. You can't stop an apply to each until it has gone through every item. If you want to stop it with a variable, you'd want to use a Do Until instead.

However, I don't think that's your issue here.

Please show me the "Get files (properties only)" configuration. What does your Filter Query look like on it? If we can ensure it only brings back 1 file, then, there should be no loop at all. If there is no query, we need to build one. If there is a query but it's bringing back multiple items (and that's intended), then, we need to put that data into a table, then put the table into the email - rather than going into an Apply to Each.

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