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Hi everyone,

 

we are currently running into the limitations of action flows. Namely runtime.

 

Use-Case: We want to create 2000 PDF Reports from Analysis sheets and send them to different people.

 

Creating one PDF Report takes aprox. 40 seconds.

Therefore after only 80 reports, we already reached the runtime limit.

 

Did someone already encounter this issue?

 

Possible Solutions that I already had in mind:

  1. Skill to trigger parallel executions of that action flow (I don't think this works because I can't even execute an action flow while it is already running)
  2. Duplicate the action flow like 40 times (I don't think this can even be considered a solution)

 

Thankfull for any help that someone might provide!

Thanks in advance.

 

Best regards

Patrick

Hey @patrick.groth12 ,

 

we are facing a similar issue with action flows. We are not creating PDF documents, but rather tables that are included within an Email that we are sending out.

Our rule of thumb so far has been AF run time above 35-40 minutes creates challenges. Number of Emails send above 1000 per AF create challenges particularly for runtime.

 

Our interim work around for this is to duplicate the AF and reduce the amount of information based on filters.

We raised a ticket with Celonis to support on this issue but also work on a possible solution within Pycelonis.

 

Let me know in case you come up with sth useful.

 

Kind regards,

Lisa


Hey @patrick.groth12 ,

 

we are facing a similar issue with action flows. We are not creating PDF documents, but rather tables that are included within an Email that we are sending out.

Our rule of thumb so far has been AF run time above 35-40 minutes creates challenges. Number of Emails send above 1000 per AF create challenges particularly for runtime.

 

Our interim work around for this is to duplicate the AF and reduce the amount of information based on filters.

We raised a ticket with Celonis to support on this issue but also work on a possible solution within Pycelonis.

 

Let me know in case you come up with sth useful.

 

Kind regards,

Lisa

  1. Solution (having an skill that is looping through and triggering the action flow (in increments of 50 for example) works. see: https://docs.celonis.com/en/execute-action-flows-in-skills.html

It is probably a bit superior (even though not a lot) to your solution because if there is a change to the AF you don't have to change it for each AF.

 


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