Flow Designer - Need to spawn 3 tasks simulataneously

[ronyaac]

Hello All,

I am trying to create my old flow in workflow editor into flow designer.

I have 3 tasks that I need to trigger at the same time, however I need one of the tasks to wait until it close completes before spawning the other tasks. The caveat is that I need the third task to continue its other tasks. It sounds confusing so maybe a picture will help:

These are the 3 tasks that need to spawn at the same time. Currently it does work where all 3 have to be closed completed before moving on to the next tasks. However, the "Assign (assing) sourcing cse" tasks does NOT need to wait, it needs to continue spawning the other tasks associated it to it. The "Vet the Vendor" task has other tasks associated to it that needs to wait until its complete. 

Summary: Need to have all 3 tasks spawn, but 1/3 does not need to wait until the other tasks are closed to continue only one does.

[Mike_R]

Try "Do the following in parallel" flow logic

https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/tokyo-application-development/page/administer/flow-designer/conce...

[ronyaac]

Hi Mike! So I did try this where i put the tasks in parallel and it does work. However, my issue is that 1/3 of the paths must wait to be closed completed before spawning the other tasks, while the other task does not need to wait on the other task to move on to the next task.

The tasks take different avenues based on logic that determines what next task spawns. 

[Mike_R]

You can try something like this

[ronyaac]

Hi Mike, I had tried this and does work, however, I am still not understanding how to trigger another task. So for example, 1 task needs to be closed complete before triggering off a different task, while the other 2 need to be closed complete before trigger the tasks associated to them.

How do I differentiate the 3? In workflow editor you can create multiple tasks that then have other tasks that follow and they can be different. See the image attached for a better view