Why Flow Designer is slow

[Przemyslaw Goz1]

Hi,

I have a question regarding performance of Flow designer. I've created a very simple Flow.

Trigger: (condition is empty because it doesn't matter at all)

Action:

The issue is that, when I do any change on the incident the flow changes the description after aprox 30 seconds or even not trigger it at all. 

I understand, there is some schedule job which process the flows.

How I can force it to runs quicker?

[rhysbrennan]

Hi, I can't help but Flow does run after BR's and Workflow according to this link: https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/kingston-servicenow-platform/page/script/general-scripting/refere... 

We were toying with the idea of using a Flow instead of a business rule, we have gone back to a BR because of the delay in the flow processing.

[jake_burman]

If you configure your flow to run in the foreground, it will use the current thread vs dropping into the sysevent queue. See https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/newyork-servicenow-platform/page/administer/flow-designer/referen... for more information on running in foreground

[Monali Patil]

Hi Przemyslaw Gozdzik,

Please go through below link:

https://community.servicenow.com/community?id=community_blog&sys_id=09becbf3db589b403882fb651f961986

If my answer is worthy Please mark answer as correct/helpful.

Thanks and Regards,

Monali Patil

Developer

[Przemyslaw Goz1 · Accepted solution]

The delays where caused by global scope. When I moved the flows to custom scope, problem was solved.