Power Apps Exchange

Hi,

i am currently building some kind of import workflow that imports entries from an Excel File into Dataverse.
I start the workflow via PowerApps and during the flow run, it shows a loading spinner in the app. As soon as the workflow is finished, i want to show the result in PowerApps (Respond to PowerApps).
For small amount or excel rows, this works fine, but as soon as the workflow runs a bit longer because of a large amount of entries, the "Respond to PowerApps" step runs into a timeout error. Is there any way to increase the timeout or is there any other way to show in the PowerApp, that the workflow is finished?

Thank you!

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Fabian Heil
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Hi Fabian,

what do you mean by "a bit longer"?
I have a flow running for 11 sec with a 'respond to powerapp' and this is running fine. I haven't seen any option to increase this timeout to be honest.

If it's keeps on failing, you could write some value in a table somewhere at the end of your flow and have your powerapp check if that value is there or not. That will give you an indication on the progress of your flow

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Koen Mathijs
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Original Message:
Sent: Oct 06, 2022 02:43 AM
From: Fabian Heil
Subject: Respond to PowerApp - Timeout

Hi,

i am currently building some kind of import workflow that imports entries from an Excel File into Dataverse.
I start the workflow via PowerApps and during the flow run, it shows a loading spinner in the app. As soon as the workflow is finished, i want to show the result in PowerApps (Respond to PowerApps).
For small amount or excel rows, this works fine, but as soon as the workflow runs a bit longer because of a large amount of entries, the "Respond to PowerApps" step runs into a timeout error. Is there any way to increase the timeout or is there any other way to show in the PowerApp, that the workflow is finished?

Thank you!

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Fabian Heil
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Oh, with longer i mean 30 Minutes or longer :D I iterates through an excel file with 200 -800 items.
Without the respond step, it works fine, but the respond steps times out after some minutes

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Fabian Heil
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Original Message:
Sent: Oct 07, 2022 04:03 AM
From: Koen Mathijs
Subject: Respond to PowerApp - Timeout

Hi Fabian,

what do you mean by "a bit longer"?
I have a flow running for 11 sec with a 'respond to powerapp' and this is running fine. I haven't seen any option to increase this timeout to be honest.

If it's keeps on failing, you could write some value in a table somewhere at the end of your flow and have your powerapp check if that value is there or not. That will give you an indication on the progress of your flow

------------------------------
Koen Mathijs

Original Message:
Sent: Oct 06, 2022 02:43 AM
From: Fabian Heil
Subject: Respond to PowerApp - Timeout

Hi,

i am currently building some kind of import workflow that imports entries from an Excel File into Dataverse.
I start the workflow via PowerApps and during the flow run, it shows a loading spinner in the app. As soon as the workflow is finished, i want to show the result in PowerApps (Respond to PowerApps).
For small amount or excel rows, this works fine, but as soon as the workflow runs a bit longer because of a large amount of entries, the "Respond to PowerApps" step runs into a timeout error. Is there any way to increase the timeout or is there any other way to show in the PowerApp, that the workflow is finished?

Thank you!

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Fabian Heil
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There is actually a time-out of 2 minutes (which is already past the usual standard of 60 sec) for a gateway time-out. Prolonging this doesn't seem like a good idea.

The only workaround I see is to update some sort of database field and poll that for success or not.

More info can be found in this thread:
https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/General-Power-Automate/Respond-to-a-PowerApp-or-flow-time-limit/td-p/945549

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Koen Mathijs
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Original Message:
Sent: Oct 07, 2022 04:50 AM
From: Fabian Heil
Subject: Respond to PowerApp - Timeout

Oh, with longer i mean 30 Minutes or longer :D I iterates through an excel file with 200 -800 items.
Without the respond step, it works fine, but the respond steps times out after some minutes

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Fabian Heil

Original Message:
Sent: Oct 07, 2022 04:03 AM
From: Koen Mathijs
Subject: Respond to PowerApp - Timeout

Hi Fabian,

what do you mean by "a bit longer"?
I have a flow running for 11 sec with a 'respond to powerapp' and this is running fine. I haven't seen any option to increase this timeout to be honest.

If it's keeps on failing, you could write some value in a table somewhere at the end of your flow and have your powerapp check if that value is there or not. That will give you an indication on the progress of your flow

------------------------------
Koen Mathijs

Original Message:
Sent: Oct 06, 2022 02:43 AM
From: Fabian Heil
Subject: Respond to PowerApp - Timeout

Hi,

i am currently building some kind of import workflow that imports entries from an Excel File into Dataverse.
I start the workflow via PowerApps and during the flow run, it shows a loading spinner in the app. As soon as the workflow is finished, i want to show the result in PowerApps (Respond to PowerApps).
For small amount or excel rows, this works fine, but as soon as the workflow runs a bit longer because of a large amount of entries, the "Respond to PowerApps" step runs into a timeout error. Is there any way to increase the timeout or is there any other way to show in the PowerApp, that the workflow is finished?

Thank you!

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Fabian Heil
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