go over a sharepoint list and adding them into a forach tp create accounts.

[justsomeguy414]

Good day, I'm new to PAD.

I'm unsure what would be the best way to word this out. 

We have a legacy application in with we need to create accounts manually. 

What I would like to happen is, 

1 - A cloud flow runs daily and looks into a SharePoint list for users who need to be created on the legacy application.

2 - The desktop flow would be triggered.

3 - subflow to populate the user info

The problem: I don't want to make it so the Desktop flow would open the app, create the user, close the app, then repeat it again for each user. I want to know if it is possible just to open the app once, then go over into for each user, create all of them, then close the app. 

English is not my first language. Apologies if this does not make sense. I can try to elaborate more if need be.

[Kaif_Siddique]

Hi @justsomeguy414 ,

I would suggest, get the SharePoint data and save it to One Drive. Then call PAD flow to read data from One Drive(loop items) and create account.

Also, keep app login part outside the loop and keep create new staff to save button actions inside the loop. Once the new staff is created then again click on new staff..

Hope this will help you. 

Regards

Kaif

[VJR]

@justsomeguy414 

You can have a check in your Flow that makes use of actions like the below ones to check whether the process is already running or if a window is open. 

If not, only then launch the application.