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sObject Changes Not Saved Within a Visual Flow Loop

VISUAL FLOW.  My scenario.  I fast lookup and load records into collection sObject called..."Objects".  I then loop through "Objects" using loop variable called "Object" and update some of the values for each of the records within "Objects".  When that loop is done, I loop through "Objects" again a second time (using loop variable again called "Object") and SOME of the values I updated in the first loop arent there in the second loop.  Ie. I'm making changes and immediately looping again and the changes aren't there.  It HAS to be a defect, but as SFDC doesn't support FLOW my understanding is that (like other issues I've run across) the only option is work-around.  Has anyone else come across this?  Any recommended work-arounds or better clarity on what the specific issue is to help me work out a good alternative?
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Hi TROG,

Are you commiting those changes via a 'Record Update' or 'Fast Update' Call? You might need to do another lookup call to retrieve the newest version of those records after the first update as a workaround. This is inpractical. Other than this, you can try to restructure the logic/sequence such that you only do one update at the very end of the flow process.

Hope this helps!

AM
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Thanks for the response.  For performance reasons, I'm not fast-updating and then re-loading via fast lookup to commit an intermediate change.  What I'm fearing/assuming is that you can't do multiple loops to continually massage data within the same sObject collection.  I fear that you need to loop thru your collection1 and then add the modified record to a new sObject collection2....then loop thru that collection2, modify, and add the modified records to a new collection3, etc.  I agree w/ your suggestion though - as a workaround (if I understand the issue/limitation correctly), I'll need to re-arch and change the order of my FLOW.

Knowing is half the battle.  Go Joe!
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You can also simply add the element from list 1 to another sobject collection list 2 after every itteration of your first loop. This makes for minimal changes to your current logic. Since you are essentialy dealing with a copy of the record with every pass of the loop.

Hope this helps!

AM