How frequently can flows run?

Rachel Bock

I'm new to Power Automate, so I'm sure this is a pretty basic question but I'm going to ask it anyways. How frequently can flows run? I would like to add a custom field to records immediately upon saving the records, if the records qualify for the custom field. I found a template that adds a custom field to records based on a list, which I believe will work, but it is set up to run nightly. Is it possible to have the custom field added when the record is saved? Thanks in advance.

Alex Wong

@Rachel Bock
Power Automate limits depends on your subscription/license level. You can read more about it here:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/limits-and-config

Without going into too much details, I am 99.9% sure you can do what you want.

You just need to register a webhook on constituent create, and then condition on your logic and add a custom field to the record. nothing that will hit any limit unless you are importing thousands of records into RE using database view at a time.

Rachel Bock

@Alex Wong Thank you so much. I appreciate the help.

Do you happen to know if this is possible with organization relationship attributes? I originally thought we were trying to do this with constituent attributes, but it turns out that is not the case. I don't want to go too far down the path if it's not possible. Thank you.

Alex Wong

@Rachel Bock
yes.. you can create relationship record via API as well.

Rachel Bock

@Alex Wong
Thanks so much. I looked over the information and it doesn't look like custom fields are available for relationship records. Am I interpreting that correctly?

Alex Wong

@Rachel Bock
Are you also trying to create relationship attribute along with relationship record? Then no, API does not currently support creating relationship attribute.

so if you must use Relationship Attribute as well, then either you don't automate or you automate what can be automated first and still do manual relationship attribute import in database view and when Blackbaud comes out with relationship attribute support, update the automation to do the attribute.

Depending on what attribute and what info you are trying to put into the attribute, may make more sense 1 way or the other.

Rachel Bock

@Alex Wong
Thank you. Yes, I am trying to add attributes to existing relationships. It sounds like this is not supported yet. Thanks for helping me out. I appreciate your patience!