Flow to respond to PowerApps upon completion of different flow

[Anonymous]

I need help with or suggestions to the following:

I have built a simple app for users to add data to a Sharepoint list via a SubmitForm. When the item is created, this triggers a flow that takes around 30 secs to complete. What I would like, is to add a loading screen to the app while this flow is running. However, being that the trigger of the flow is not connecting it directly to PA, I can't put in a "Respond to PowerApps" step at the end. So I am thinking I need to trigger a parallel flow from the same SubmitForm-button in the app that also triggers the first flow.

I am just at a bit of a loss as to how I can get this second flow to connect to the first? And, ideally respond back to the App when it receives notice that the first flow has finished successfully.

[yashag2255]

Hi @Anonymous 

What if instead creating two flows, you create just one that is triggered from the Power Apps submit form. (The item is created in SP and that is the base of the trigger anyways), you can pass the item ID from Power Apps and then do a get item in Power Automate to get the details of the item that has been created and complete the process the flow is supposed to before finally sending a response to Power Apps. 

Hope this Helps!

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[Anonymous]

Thanks for the reply @yashag2255 !

I had the same thought and I have tried to edit a copy of the original flow to run based on a PowerApps trigger instead. However, this has presented a bit of a dilemma; The first step following that trigger is "Get Item" and I've set it up to ask for the ItemID of the list item that is generated via the app - I need the flow to run based on a unique identifier. When I try to initialise the flow from within the PowerApp, I need to feed the formula with the parameter that "Get Item" asks for, ie. the ItemId of an item that has not generated an Id yet.

Do you see the dilemma?

[yashag2255]

Um yes. Do you think there are any columns that might have unique data? That way, we can use that column and the get items action in Power Automate to apply the filter query and get the desired item. 

Hope this Helps!

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[mathizze]

Hi, I have the exact same problem. 

My app is patching a record in an SQL database and I use the Power Automate trigger "when an SQL item is created" to start my flow.

I want the result of that flow returned in my app.

Any idea on how to accomplish this?