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Tip #1383: Fire and forget flows

Missiles MBDA Brimstone

When you fire up a child workflow in classic workflow, it’s always asynchronous. Fire and forget. Sometimes it’s what you need, sometimes you want to insist on child finishing their greens before the dessert, so to speak. Power Automate, on the other hand, always wants the result when you call a child flow and nags […]

Posted on September 21, 2020 by George Doubinski (Twitter) in Power Automate
Tagged child, dontwait, wait

Tip #121: Don’t use wait conditions

Workflow wait conditions can be very useful. Say you need to have an email go to a customer 30 days prior to their contract renewal, it can be tempting to use a wait condition. However, excessive use of wait conditions has a downside. Performance: each waiting workflow instance carries performance overhead. The more waiting workflow […]

Posted on April 28, 2014 by Joel Lindstrom (Twitter) in Workflow
Tagged dontwait, wait, workflow | 4 Comments
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