Creating an Asana task after another task is completed

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Posted on by Gaia

Hi,

I'm trying to create a workflow for a work request integrating SharePoint and Asana.

I wish that for a selected document from the SharePoint the workflow will trigger the creation of an Asana task (let's call it task #1). Then I want the flow to wait until task #1 is marked completed and when it is, trigger the creation of another asana task (let's call it task #2). I've created the flow below, but obviously the flow doesn't wait on completion of task #1 and straight away created task #2. Is there any "while" loop solution that will pause the flow until completion state is changed from No to Yes?

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Gaia 25 on at

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Update:
I tried with Do Until.
The condition was : "do until completed (of task #1)is equal to Yes", but it just immediately moved on to create task #2 because the loop has a limit of 60 runs.
Then I tried to add a scheduled delay within the Do Until, but the flow just waited for the delay to be over regardless of the state of task #1, and proceeded to creating task #2.
Any ideas on how to make it actually work?🤔
v-chenzhi Microsoft Employee on at

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Hi @Gaia ,

Do you want to create the next task after one task is completed?

I have a test for your reference, please the following workaround.

When I mark the first task as completed, the second task will be created.

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Zhi Chen
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Thanks @v-chenzhi ,
I tried your solution, it gets stuck in the "Do until" and doesn't create the second task immediately. It does open the second task when the flow is timed out . When you tested, did the second task appear in Asana immediately after completion of the first task?
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v-chenzhi Microsoft Employee on at

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Hi @Gaia ,

When I mark task1 as completed, it will immediately create task2 in Asana.

Could you please check if your action has selected the correct dynamic content.

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Zhi Chen
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@v-chenzhi thanks, it did the trick! But now there's another problem: if the first task wasn't marked completed within a few minutes the whole flow times-out and the second task is opened anyway.
This happens because there's a counter limit of 60 "Do Until" runs before the flow times-out.
To solve this issue I added a scheduled delay that delays the loop for 10 min and the loop overall runs for 4320 time (so the whole flow will only be timed out after 30 days):

Thanks for your help!