How to break out of a Do.. Loop with a Delay

[livingstonep]

Hi,

We have a flow with several sequential approvals (by different teams) and need to implement Reminder emails every 7 days so the approvals don't time out...

So I created a Parallel Branch for my first approval, and added a Do...Until with a condition of an integer variable being =1 will end it...

Inside the Do..Until loop I added a Delay step for 7 days to send the reminder email every 7 days...

here are some images:

The issue is that if the approvers approve (or reject) the item before the 7 days are up, we still have to wait for the Delay step to complete it's 7 days before the next approval can be started...

so is there a workaround for that?

We can't have less than 7 days, but if the approval is completed we don't want to wait for 7 days...

Is there a way to break out of the Do...Until ?

Or do I have to have a delay of 1 day run 7 times, incrementing an integer by 1 each time and only sending the email when it's =7 then reseting it to 1?

thanks

Philip

[Pstork1]

There is no way to break out of a Loop.  What you could do is decrease your delay to something like one day and then add a counter and only send the reminder if the counter reaches 7.  That way the loop will cycle every day, but only send the reminder on the seventh day.  But then you could exit the loop at the end of each day when the loop cycles.  If you want it more frequent than that just decrease the size of the delay even more and up the value of the counter.

[livingstonep]

@Pstork1 

Thanks, I have tried this, but having no luck - the delay timer passes without sending a reminder.

Here are the images showing the two parallel branches:

Here you can see it has passed the 10 Minute Delay

is there something wrong with my Do...Until or Delay steps?

[Pstork1 · Accepted solution]

Here's a rough prototype of what I was suggesting.  The first screenshot shows the overall flow.  I initialize two variables at the top, one to control exiting the loop after the approval returns and the other to control when to send reminders inside the loop. The second screenshot shows the details of the loop.  I've got it set to loop every 10 minutes and send a reminder every hour.  So it delays for 10 minutes, increments the counter and checks to see if 6 loops have passed (60 minutes).  If they have it sends an email and resets the counter.  Otherwise it does nothing.  When the approval returns and sets the control variable to true it exits the loop.

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