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'When an item is created or modified' trigger not firing until manually saved

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Posted on 17 Jan 2019 16:43:53 by

I'm running into an odd issue where my Flow will not trigger correctly upon modifying a list item. I have flow set up to copy appended Col1 content to Col2 which can then be listed as an 'updated comment' in my list's default view.

It's the same logic as a SP2013 workflow I've been using, but for whatever reason the flow will not automatically trigger when an item is created/modified in my list - it will only trigger if I go back into the flow and manually save it (the Flow) again. Additionally, if I manually save the Flow a second time, it wipes Col2's existing content.

I am not intimately familiar with any quirks found in the 'When an item is created or modified' SharePoint trigger in Flow, but it's possible I'm missing something obvious.

Below is the logic I'm using.

'Comment Update' MS Flow example

Any help would be much appreciated, I haven't been able to find any posts going over this Flow trigger specifically. It seems like there would either be a very obvious solution to this, or this is a glaring bug with Flow.

Thank you for your time.

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    29 on 19 Aug 2020 at 12:56:23
    Re: 'When an item is created or modified' trigger not firing until manually saved

    Hi everyone,

     

    I know this is an old thread, but I stumbled upon in while I was trying to solve the same problem.  I wanted to share what resolved it for me in case anyone else comes across this thread like I did.

     

    Scenario:

    I have 2 accounts with 2 flows each for a total of 4 flows (that I am aware of) which are all connected to the same list and are using the same "When an item is created or modified" trigger.  3 of the flows trigger at the same time automatically every time an item is created or modified in the source list.  The last flow would not ever trigger automatically.  I had to "edit" the flow and click "save" (even without actually making any edits) in order for the flow to run (and then it would run all the pending instances at once as others have observed).

     

    Solution:

    I don't know why this worked, but what I did to resolve the issue was:

    1. Save a copy of the bad flow (the one that would not trigger automatically) using the "Save As" button on the flow details page.
    2. Turn off the original (bad) flow.
    3. Turn on the new copy.

     

    The copy started working right away.  It triggers at the same time the other (good) ones do and runs correctly.

     

    I can't guarantee these steps will resolve the issue for others, but I wanted to share something to try in hopes that it may help someone.

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