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Copper Contributor

Sep 09, 2018

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Effect of change in Microsoft Flow on ongoing flow runs

Hi, I am trying to understand how changes in flow in Microsoft Flow (triggering series of approvals when a new item is added to document library) will be affected when linked flow is changed (e.g...

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Matt Weston
Sep 10, 2018
Hi Alexandra S. Flow will run the actions which were assigned to it at the point that it was triggered. Only if the Flow is forced to restart or it breaks it's existing cycle will it then run the new actions.

Matt Weston

Iron Contributor

Sep 10, 2018

Hi Alexandra S. Flow will run the actions which were assigned to it at the point that it was triggered. Only if the Flow is forced to restart or it breaks it's existing cycle will it then run the new actions.

Divyesh Kotadia

Copper Contributor

Feb 16, 2019

Thanks Matt I was looking for this all over.

Additional question to that, what happens to flow when there is update in list structure? Like I have added one mandatory field and there are existing flow running which should update item once approved.

I hope they will break because they don't have value to feed for that column but would be great to get your intel.

Thanks in advance:)