Monthly Recurring Task Setup Issue Power Automate

[Anonymous]

Hi @Anonymous 

I'm creating a recurring task from Planner and select "Month" for Frequency and "1" for Interval. The idea is to run this flow every 1st of the month. And filled up details for advance options.

After the recurrence (scheduled action) next step is to create a planner task and assign it on a bucket. Then update task details to put in some description put some delay after and lastly post a message to teams channel. 

Everything is set up, tested the flow and it runs successfully.  After clicking the run flow, all actions mentioned above run.

My question is.

1) Will this work on the scheduled month? I put June 2020 for the Start Time.

2) How do I know it is scheduled? When I tested the flow is says succeeded. Will it still run on my scheduled Start Time?

3) Why does it automatically create a planner task if the Start Time (scheduled month) is next month?

Here is the screenshot of the flow.

[RobElliott · Accepted solution]

@Anonymous I have found scheduled flows to be very reliable over the last 2 years and have ones running every day, some every week and a few for reporting on the first of each month and they all run without any problem.

1) Yes your flow will run first at the time you have set and then every 1 month after that.

2) It's scheduled as soon as you save the flow.

3) When you test your flow it will treat it as though it is a manually-triggered flow and so will go through all the actions.

Rob
Los Gallardos
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[Anonymous]

Hi @RobElliott ,

Thanks for giving clarity to the recurring monthly task setup. I'll take this as a solution on this query. 

[Mazi_D]

Hi @RobElliott  Do you have any advice on setting up a scheduled flow on a 4 weekly basis rather than a monthly one? Trying to set a flow to generate a planner task every 4 weeks has been driving me insane lol I've resorted to having them weekly and deleting the ones I don't need which is not ideal. Any help will be gratefully received 🙂

[RobElliott]

@Mazi_D just set the recurrence schedule trigger to 4 weeks:

Rob
Los Gallardos
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[Mazi_D]

Thank you.  I honestly thought that it would trigger 4 times a week if I did that.  I feel foolish now! I wish I'd asked weeks ago lol