How to update running Power Automate Flows

Totally agree with you ChrisWebbTech and Damien_Rosario ! And we do avoid using perma-run flows where possible. I guess the better question is: Is there a way to trigger a Power Automate Flow a week after creation of a record (and then again 3 days after that) without it actually running in the intervening time... this would avoid the issues caused by "perma-running" workflows.

Please consider this use case for your consideration... Reminders - This is the actual use case that drove the question:

• When a user is added to the TrainingTracker list, we kick off a workflow that tells the user where to access the training and when it must be completed by
• Then the workflow sleeps for a week
• When the workflow wakes up, it checks the status. If training is completed, it ends. If there have been no changes, it sends a reminder/escalation email
• Then the workflow sleeps for 3 days
• When the workflow wakes up, it checks the status. If training is completed, it ends. If there have been no changes, it sends an escalation email
• etc. (there are more steps, but it will send reminders until the training is completed

The above workflow works great and has been effective in getting training rates up... particularly important as we have to re-cert on training annually and there are several thousand employees in scope for the training.

The only problem is when we need to make changes to the workflow code.... hence the question. No changes to the record means we can't trigger "on update" events, which is why we resorted to perma-run workflows.