possible to let powerapps wait for async response from flow?

[BartTechne]

Hi,

I have a flow that takes longer than 5minutes that needs to respond to a powerapp.

I tried with asynchronous but i dont get my response back and the app just keeps running...

If it turn it off i get a timeout after 3 mins.

Anyone have a solution for this ?

[iAm_ManCat]

I would first look at reducing the time for the flow - what's it doing that's taking five minutes, definitely could be better optimised

If not, then your only other option is to navigate to a 'waiting screen' where a timer is running, that timer refreshes a datasource and gets the most recent row filtered by whatever unique identifier is applicable, then when it find a row within recent 10mins, you take that row contents as your input.

[BartTechne]

Sorry to ask but do you have some sample example ?

[iAm_ManCat]

Nothing that I can share publicly, I was presenting an idea for an alternative, but I really do think you should look at why your flow is taking so long

Which part is taking long? Can it be filtered? Can we use Select instead of apply to each? are there any redundant calls?

[BartTechne]

SO the flow is triggered from within powerapps:

It makes an HTTP request. I compose the body.

I need to make a more detailed call towards the API from this vendor. for each of the ITEMS

I Parse that Json to get the info.

for every entry i also need to make a call towards the BING API to get the coordinates.

After that i Need to look again into a field of an array that is in the JSON and then i create a variable to append towards the array that is then fully passed towards the APP

[iAm_ManCat · Accepted solution]

What is the concurrency setting for your Apply to each? It should be quicker to respond if Power Automate is doing multiple calls at the same time instead of one at a time: