Creating an Asana task after another task is completed

[Gaia]

Hi,

I'm trying to create a workflow for a work request integrating SharePoint and Asana.

I wish that for a selected document from the SharePoint the workflow will trigger the creation of an Asana task (let's call it task #1). Then I want the flow to wait until task #1 is marked completed and when it is, trigger the creation of another asana task (let's call it task #2). I've created the flow below, but obviously the flow doesn't wait on completion of task #1 and straight away created task #2. Is there any "while" loop solution that will pause the flow until completion state is changed from No to Yes?

[Gaia]

Update:

I tried with Do Until.

The condition was : "do until completed (of task #1)is equal to Yes", but  it just immediately moved on to create task #2 because the loop has a limit of 60 runs. 

Then I tried to add a scheduled delay within the Do Until, but the flow just waited for the delay to be over regardless of the state of task #1, and proceeded to creating task #2.

Any ideas on how to make it actually work?🤔

[v-chenzhi]

Hi @Gaia ,

Do you want to create the next task after one task is completed?

I have a test for your reference, please the following workaround.

When I mark the first task as completed, the second task will be created.

Best Regards,

Zhi Chen

[Gaia]

Thanks @v-chenzhi ,

I tried your solution, it gets stuck in the "Do until" and doesn't create the second task immediately. It does open the second task when the flow is timed out . When you tested, did the second task appear in Asana immediately after completion of the first task?

flowtest

[v-chenzhi · Accepted solution]

Hi @Gaia ,

When I mark task1 as completed, it will immediately create task2 in Asana.

Could you please check if your action has selected the correct dynamic content.

Best Regards,

Zhi Chen

[Gaia]

@v-chenzhi thanks, it did the trick! But now there's another problem: if the first task wasn't marked completed within a few minutes the whole flow times-out and the second task is opened anyway. 

This happens because there's a counter limit of 60 "Do Until" runs before the flow times-out.

To solve this issue I added a scheduled delay that delays the loop for 10 min and the loop overall runs for 4320 time (so the whole flow will only be timed out after 30 days):

Thanks for your help!