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[asmith2]

Hey everyone!

I have a powerapp being used for requests inside the company. There's an edit record lock that engaged in order to keep more than one person from accessing the record. I'm trying to create a flow to email when someone changes the status and/or comments of an item. The process goes like this:

• person hits edit record -> app patches to list { in edit: "yes"} {edit person: current user}. 

• person saves their changes -> app submits form 

• on success of form -> app patches to list {in edit: ""} {edit person: ""}

The problem is that these events happen very close together sometimes. So the flow doesn't seem to pick up each trigger. From some tests, if they happen too close together, it will pick up the first trigger from the patch, and the last trigger, also from the patch. But it doesn't seem to pick up the trigger in between, when the form was submitted. This results in status change = false. Because the change happened before the second patch. Which means no emails to the employee. 

Is there something I could do to keep this from happening? Perhaps a separate flow when the edit record is enabled?

[Kcronic1 · Accepted solution]

Hello @asmith2 ,

In reviewing your post I understand that you are having issues with the actions of your flows happening too soon causing issues with the triggering of the next flow. 

I would suggest using delays of about 2 min at the end of your actions to see if this will allow time for the update to fully complete. 

Here's a link to the delay action in Power Automate: Use wait conditions to delay flows - Power Automate | Microsoft Docs

Hopefully this helps! 🙂

Regards,

Kristie

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