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Anyway to do Multiple Ask for Approval in a flow without it pausing for each one?

Community Alums
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I have a flow that needs to create multiple sctasks at one time.  The number of sctasks can vary based on the amount of objects in a list collector on a catalog item.

I have successfully created all of the tasks needed at one time. I want to loop through the created SCTASKs and ask the correct group for approvals (a for each loop). 
The problem I have now is I need to set an Approval on the SCTASK based on some decision rules.  What I'm running into is it will do the Ask for Approval on one of them and after it's approved it will go to the next one.  I don't want to stonewall the other groups that needs to approve the SCTASK by waiting,  I want to create all of the approvals at one time for each of the items.  They are not dependent on each other. 
Any thoughts on how to do this?  

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Please post screenshots of your current flow so we can try to help diagnose the issue. You should be able to create the tasks and then update them later based on some logic without lag time. I'd need to see your flow to assist further

Hi @Community Alums ,

If you are creating the tasks and approval in the loop then 'Do the following in parallel' flow logic does not seem to justify its use case.

However, as @jcmings mentioned please check whether "Wait" checkbox is checked on the Create Task action. If so, uncheck that.

Because, keeping it checked means the next task generation will wait until the previous task is closed.

 

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Animesh Das

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Wait is not checked, also not sure how to loop through a all of the sctask then pass those to the decision table to create the approval variable.