Delay and do until action for notifications

[YSK]

Hello,

I'm building an approval flow where I would like to send a notification if there was no action after three days. After the third day I would like to send a notification every day.

For the testing purposes, I've created a simple flow:

1. Start an approval
2. Delay for 1 minute
3. Send a notification every minute until the document is approved or rejected

How to configure Do until action so that it sends one email every minute?

If I set Count = 1 and Time out = PT1M the flow will send me one email in one minute and resume.

If I set Count =60 and Timeout = PT1M the flow will send me 60 emails in one minute and then resume.

[v-yuazh-msft]

Hi @YSK,

The Count field in Do until means the run max count of Do until,If you don't want to specify the do until run times, you should leave the Count field blank.

The Timeout field in Do until means the run max timeout,

if you would like the timeout of Do until to be 1Month,you could set the value below in the Timeout field:

PT1M

if you would like the timeout of Do until to be 15 Day,you could set the value below in the Timeout field:

PT15D

You could refer to link below to learn more about the ISO 8601 format:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Durations

Best regards,

Alice

[YSK]

Hi @v-yuazh-msft

Correct me if I'm wrong,  PT1M is one minute tiemout, but P1MT is a one month period. 

I've just tested what you proposed, Count = blank, Timeout = PT1M, as result I've got more than 100 emails over a minute. 

If I set Count =3 and Timeout = PT1M the flow will send me three notifications at once and resume as succesfull. 

So, the question is still open, how to configure do until in the way that it sends one notification every minute (hour/day)? Let say I want to send 3 notifications, so I set Count =3. Now, I want them to arrive into my inbox with a minute delay between them. Is it possible?

Appreciated your time and help. 

[v-yuazh-msft]

Hi @YSK,

Please add a "Delay" action under the send email notification action.

Please configure The Do until as below:

Best regards,

Alice

[DevendraV]

@YSK, have a look at this thread where delay activity was implemented.

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/I-Found-A-Bug/Do-Until-question/td-p/24576/page/2

[YSK]

Not sure why but it still doesn't work for me as I would expect.

I've done exactly as per your post, my flow iterated only once and finished with status Succedded. It didn't wait another minute to send another notification. 

[v-yuazh-msft]

Hi @YSK,

The screenshot show that your Do until only run one time.

Please leave the Count field in the Do until blank.

 

Best regards,

Alice

[GabrielStJohn]

Hey, @YSK! 

Have you had an opportunity to apply @v-yuazh-msft‘s recommendation to adapt your Flow? If yes, and you find that solution to be satisfactory, please go ahead and click “Accept as Solution” so that this thread will be marked for other users to easily identify! Thank you for being an active member of the Flow Community!

-Gabriel

Flow Community Manager

[YSK · Accepted solution]

Sorry for the late reply. 

@DevendraV thank you very much for the link to your post it helped me to resolve my issue.

Here is my flow. When an item is creted start two parallel actions:

1.1. Start an Approval

1.2 Terminate flow as succeded after approval or rejection. This is required to stop parallel action.

2.1 Delay  3 days (1 minute for testing)

2.2. Do until Approva status does not contain Pending. Important! Approval status is outcome from Get item 2.

Limits: Count 30, Timeout PT30D - to run for 30 days.

2.2.1 Send notification

2.2.2 Second delay for 1 day ( 15 seconds for testing)

2.2.3 Get item. This step is important to check the status of item every day and keep the loop runing until the condition is met: Approval status does not contain Pending. 

Thanks everyone for your assistance.

[DML1]

Can we use do until action for email response instead of approval response, means i dont want to trigger approval but email and if no response received for first email trigger then i have to send reminder emails with delay action? 

Badly looking for an answer, tired of searching 😞