Convert manually triggered flow to recurrence

[jyothiv]

Hi I have a flow created as manually triggered flow initially. I have completed my testing and the results look good. How to convert the same flow to recurrence.  I did not see an option to convert it. I thought of adding the action as Schedule, but it's not allowed to use "Recurrence" and remove the previous step manually triggered. It looks like its not supported method.

[Pstork1]

There is no option to convert the flow automatically.  But if you've used a button to manually start the flow you can delete the button trigger and replace it with a recurrence trigger.  If you supplied any parameters with the button trigger you'll also have to add actions to retrieve those parameters in some way.  But that should be all it takes.

[Sanjay139 · Accepted solution]

Adding to Pstork1 ,this feature is by design. As per Microsoft Flow ( Now known as Power Automate) architecture, Flow works on trigger + action steps. You can’t use

more than one trigger at a time while creating a Flow. Button( Manual trigger a Flow ) and  Schedule (Recurrence) are two different triggers. So you have to replace the trigger to

use recurrence to make it automatic. So the behavior is by design.

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Thanks,

Sanjaya

[jyothiv]

Thank you, I have deleted the manual trigger first and then added the Recurrence. Initially i was trying to add the Recurrence first and then removing the manual.  I was thinking that Trigger is the first step which will not allow you delete until and unless you have valid Trigger for a flow.  

Now this got me to another question, As I am able to delete a trigger, what is the use case of a flow without having any trigger.

Thanks,Jyothi

[Sanjay139]

Hi jyothiv,

Thank you for your response. Microsoft Flow has been designed to Automate work flows or repetitive tasks on day to day basis.

So to answer your query, you can't create a Flow without any trigger. Trigger part is the first step while creating a

Microsoft Flow. So there is no existence of Flow without any trigger. Please go through the below link for more clarification.

https://us.flow.microsoft.com/en-us/

Hope it clarifies your answer.

Regards,

Sanjaya