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Can a flow start another flow?
Natively, Microsoft Flows does not have a way for a Flow to call another Flow. However, Flows can be triggered on an HTTP request and they can also make HTTP calls, hence they can call each other by combining an HTTP request receive trigger and an HTTP request action.
Can a Power Automate flow have more than one trigger?
As we all probably know, every Flow in Power Automate begins with a trigger and continues with multiple actions, branches and conditions. But have you ever considered putting a trigger in the middle of a flow? That’s right. It is entirely possible to put another trigger inside of an action.
How do you run a flow in power automate?
Run your desktop flow from an event, button, schedule, or business process flow
- Sign in to Power Automate.
- Select My flows in the left navigation pane.
- Select New, and then select Automated-from blank.
- Give your flow a name in the Flow name box.
How do you run a child Flow Power automate?
Create the child flow in a solution
- Sign into Power Automate, select Solutions, and then pick an existing solution.
- Select New > Flow > Button flow > Manually trigger a flow.
- Select Add an input.
- For this walkthrough, the child flow creates a contact, so it needs the Contact name and Contact email.
Can a flow run twice at the same time?
The main situation is unchanged, the same flow can be running at the same time if triggered. Two basic workarounds: 1. Modify the trigger so that it won’t be triggered multiple times in the same timeframe. For example. if the flow is on a schedule to run once every 15 minutes, then it won’t run twice at the same time.
Can you run multiple instances of Microsoft Flow at the same time?
Microsoft Flow is multi-threaded, there is no way to detect if some other instances are running at the same time in Microsoft Flow currently. I afraid that there is no way to achieve your needs in Microsoft Flow currently, if you would like this feature to be added in Microsoft Flow, please submit an idea to Flow Ideas Forum:
Ive got a flow that imports rows from an excel doc into a sharepoint list when a new xls file is uploaded into a ondrive document library. The flow is working as expected but runs runs twice for each document. Has anyone else had this problem? Solved!
Why is my flow running twice in Excel?
There is another possible cause of a flow running twice in this scenario (” excel doc into a sharepoint list when a new xls file is uploaded into a ondrive document library”). The scenario requires defining a table in the Excel doc.