When does a repeating flow first run?

[spike]

I want to create a flow that runs ever two weeks. Fortnightly isn't currently an option. So I figured I'd go for every 14 days.

However I've no idea when the flow will first trigger.

Does anyone know how that works? When the first execution will be?

Thanks.

[OlaN]

Okay, so now I did a little test based on this scenario, just to know how it works.

I created a flow that was set to run Once, at a specific date/time. Saved and activated it.

After it had executed, I opened the flow, and changed the trigger to be repeatedly with a given interval (2 minutes).
I saved and activated again.

Result:

The first expected run (when I saved and activated it) was not executed, and my best guess why this is happening, is that it already had executed once with my initial trigger.
So instead it ran every 2 minutes repeatedly after the change and activation.

[spike]

Yeah that makes a lot of sense.

[spike]

My flow that I set to 14 days, ran 6 days after I made that update, interestingly 14 days after it was first created. Well, depending on how you count. It was created on 30th Nov 09:37 and ran on 14th Dec 09:38.

[OlaN]

Hmmm... that kind of makes sense, and at the same time not so much.

I would have expected it to run at a 14 day interval from the date/time it's published/activated, not from when it's created.

In that case you need to be very specific on when you create such a Flow, rather then to be specific when you activate/publish/install it.
Might be worth to create a ticket on support on this behaviour, just to get some clarification.

[spike]

That makes a lot of sense! Thanks for pointing it out!