Flow variable Value Retention not happening when using the variable inside do the foloowing

[Anubhav24]

Hi All,

I have a requirement on demand table and I am generating few demand tasks and approvals for demand record.

Now in this flow  for one of the approvals if it gets rejected I need to go back to a previous step and regenerate the tasks and the approval that was rejected. It needs to configurable like a if I want 5 times I can configure the flow variable to 5 and so on.

While I implemented this when I am checking the variable in a if condition like if the count is less than 5 it after the rejection of approval it should increase the counter and so on until it reaches and that is when the loop is exited.

I have declared the initial value to 0 outside of do the following until loop and when the comparison happens the value of the flow variable always is 0 and the increment happens on the current value and it is always stays to 1 . It is not retaining the value of the flow variable. Please note that inside this do the following there are multiple tasks that have wait for condition as well.

[Ankur Bawiskar]

@Anubhav24 

I think it's known thing

check below

Flow Designer | Do the following until loop | limit iteration number 

Increment integer flow variable in each loop until variable reach 5 not working with below approach 

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[Anubhav24]

So is it something that can not be achieved ? or is there an alternative to this ?

[Anubhav24]

Earlier I had a boolean variable so for that it used to work fine but it was only one check hence I went for counter to increase the cyclic check and tasks generation

[Sanjay191]

Hi @Anubhav24 

Could you please try removing the Wait for Condition step and then check the behavior of the flow? This will help determine whether the issue is related to the wait condition or the flow variable itself.

Refer the below thread as well 

https://www.servicenow.com/community/developer-forum/flow-variables-not-calling-correctly-in-do-unti...

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