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I am trying to create a scheduled workflow that kicks off an approval flow based off of a date field (Review_x0020_Due_x0020_Date eq '{formatDateTime(addDays(utcNow(),18),'yyyy-MM-dd')}'). When I run a test, it kicks off one of the 15 items that need to be approved. I'm assuming that the workflow is waiting for that first item to be approved before moving on to the next item? This does not work for what I am trying to acheive as each item goes to a different approver. Any suggestions on how I can get the flow to send all 15 approvals out?

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Khrystina

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Pstork1 68,271 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Re: Scheduled Approval Flow

In the Settings of the Apply to Each loop enable Concurrency and set Parallelism to at least 15

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Re: Scheduled Approval Flow

Thank you @Pstork1, that did work but some days I will have more than the max limit of parallelism (50). Is there a way to get around that?

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Re: Scheduled Approval Flow

50 is the hard limit. The only way to bypass that would be to split the Approvals up into groups of no more than 50 and run them in parallel branches with the loop in each branch set to enable concurrency.

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Re: Scheduled Approval Flow

@Pstork1, do I have to have an Apply to Each branch for every parallel branch? I'm hoping there is a way to only have one apply to each but it's making me choose a value from one specific parallel.

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Since the Concurrency setting is in the apply to each, yes you would need a loop in each branch to let them all run in parallel batches 50 approvals at a time.

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Re: Scheduled Approval Flow

@Pstork1 thank you so much for your help!!

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