One of the most common gripes of flow is its limited runtime. A Flow may only be active for 30 days. After that the flow will simply stop and register as time-out. There are a few ways to get around this issue. You could for example:
These methods got me out of tight spots before. But alas, this doesn’t always work. If you have a Flow with lots of parallel paths, it’s hard to chop your Flow up. Isn’t there any way to run the flow indefinitely? YES, yes there is (kinda).
What we see in the example above are 2 separate Flows.
FLOW 1: Starting Flow
FLOW 2: Main Flow
There is one BIG Caveat!!! Everytime we do something, we need to check if this has been done before. If we did It before, we can skip this step. If we didn’t we can perform our action and log that we did so. These are 2 extra actions per action, so your Flow will increase in size considerably.
Another thing to consider is that as of 2019 http actions in Flow are not in the standard Licence anymore. The owner of the flow has to have a P1 licence to run http actions.
But, Yes.... Following these steps you too can have your eternal Flow!