Flow NOT starting by an OnSuccess form trigger

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Hi everyone,

I'm in the testing phase of an app. and having some question-marks... my question is: why is my FLOW not running? It's a V2 Power apps flow with this Form OnSuccess condition:

Set(varPurchases, Form_EditRequest.LastSubmit);

If(varPurchases.Department <> Self.LastSubmit.Department,"flow-name".Run(Form_EditRequest.LastSubmit.ID) );

So I've tried it 5 times and it doesn't run.

It works for cases where I put counter, like ColumnValue + 1, but it won't run a Flow trigger.

Department is column name in SP List.

Initial state:

Final state:

Does anybody have experience with such problem?

If nothing else, I'll have to re-locate the Flow to run not on Form OnSucces property, but on button with SubmitForm(),

Like this, if the SubmitForm is true, then fire the Flow trigger:

does anybody know how can I nest if's inside? I'd like to fire a list of conditionals and whichever is true, to go with that one.

Thank you in advance!

- Nikola

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v-jefferni on at

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Hi @NidjoJohnny22 ,

If there is only one Form, then varPurchases.Department <> Self.LastSubmit.Department will always return false because varPurchases = Self.LastSubnmit

If you would like to detect differences between the old data and last submitted data, you need to set the variable when opening the form's screen or selecting an item in a Gallery:

Set(varPurchases, ThisItem);

For the last question, I cannot understand what you mean. SubmitForm is an operation and will return the results of Failed or Successful. For nested If statements, they look like:

If( Condition1, Flow.Run(PARAMETER1), If( Condition1, Flow.Run(PARAMETER2), If( Condition3, Flow.Run(PARAMETER3), If( Condition4, Flow.Run(PARAMETER4) ) ) ) )

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NidjoJohnny22 288 on at

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@v-jefferni okay, I think I already have a variable which defines this item when entering it. I will use that one, so how should it look like?

Like this: "varPurchases.Department <> Self.LastSubmit.Department", only with variable differently set?

the other one with if's I was heading into a wrong direction, basically I can do that with OnSuccess form... I would like to fire a lot of actions which depend each separately on its condition - and for sure it cant be done with if's all together... I've realized it too soon.
So OnSuccess it will be

...department <> lastsubmit.department : do this
...centernumber <>lastsubmit.centernumber : do that

etc.

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Hi @NidjoJohnny22 ,

Question1: correct, use the variable name that includes old data to compare with last submitted data as the condition. So, it would be (OnSuccess):

If( varPurchases.Department <> Self.LastSubmit.Department, do 1, varPurchases.centernumber <> Self.lastsubmit.centernumber, do 2, varPurchases.Other <> Self.lastsubmit.Other, do 3, do 4 //default action if none above meet )

Be noted that only one action will be fired in this If statement.

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NidjoJohnny22 288 on at

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Yes that is the bad side with if nesting, only one action fires... which is not good for this case 🙂 I've done it within OnSuccess, it works great now!

Thank you for fast reply, you helped me a lot!

It works now! 😄

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