End or Resolve or Skip remainder of Do Until loops when Condition is satisfied

[JoshAtBrotech]

Good morning Power Automate Community,

I am building a flow that sends out 5 approval emails when an item is created on a Custom SharePoint List.

I have added functionality that sends a "reminder" email (not an Approval email) after 48 hours individually to any of the 5 people who have not completed the approval.

I have programmed the Approval and the reminder function in a way that seems common from what I have seen around the community - a Variable for each approval, initialized with the value set to Pending before the Approval, and set to Complete when the Approval is completed, alongside a Do Until loop in a parallel branch that checks if the variable is equal to Complete, and if not (which obviously it would not be set to Complete right away), there is a 48 hour delay before a Condition checks the Variable to see if it is equal to Pending, and if it is equal to Pending, it sends the reminder email.

The programming seems fine, but there is a small snag: if everyone completes their approval within an hour, let's say, the Flow will still wait the full 48 hours as programmed in the Delay inside the Do Until loop before moving onto the next section of the flow. I had anticipated/hoped that, once the Approvals were completed and the Variables were set to Complete, it would automatically resolve the Do Until loops (aka skip them) so that the Flow could continue.

Here are some screenshots of my current Flow setup:

Here are 3 of the 5 approvals (couldn't zoom out far enough to show all of them) with their Do Until Loops, side by side.

Here is a closer look at the Action Cards around the Approval. You can see the VarContainmentApproval Variable is initialized above as Pending, and set to Complete immediately following the completion of the Approval (the convert time zone card is there to capture when the Approval was completed)

Here's a closer look at the Do Until loop. As you can see, the Do Until loop, which runs parallel to the Approval card, is set up to first check if the Variable is set to Complete, which of course right away it would not be, then, it waits 48 hours, and a Condition is used to check if the Variable is equal to Pending. If it is not, nothing happens, so that the flow can continue.

This behaviour was unexpected - I have a much simpler Flow with a Do Until loop set up to handle a reminder in the exact same way, but without this issue. The only difference being, in that Flow, there is only 1 Approval email - not 5 concurrent ones. Perhaps that is the source of the issue?

Any insight that anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Here is another screenshot showing the Do Until loop with the orange "waiting icon", despite the variable having been set to Complete after the Approval was completed:

[Hardesh15]

@JoshAtBrotech 

Reduce you delay time. it did not make sense when you use PT1H and count 60. it means that DO until will iterates 60 times within a hour but you put delay of 48 hr. Use delay of 2min then check. You can set time and count as per your requirement.

Thanks

Hardesh

[JoshAtBrotech]

Hi @Hardesh15 ,

When you say "reduce your delay time" and "Use delay of 2min then check", do you mean the Timeout in the settings for the Do Until loop?

If I set the Delay Action Card inside the Do Until loop to 2 minutes, wouldn't that send the reminder email after 2 minutes? I don't want that. I only want the reminder email sent after 48 hours have passed.

[Hardesh15]

@JoshAtBrotech 

So you want to send only one reminder in 48 hr if it is not approved. if you use Delay outside the do until loop it will still wait for 48 hr.

i will get back to you if i find any solution for this.

Thanks

Hardesh