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How to create a trigger to notify (via e-mail) when there is inactivity.

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Good afternoon,

Need: Receive a notification if a given Power Automate flow is INACTIVE for more than a certain period of time.

Context: I have operational flows that must be fulfilled at specific frequencies. I want to receive a notification e-mail if the flow is not modified within a certain period of time. The period would be calculated between two columns (created and modified), but I am having trouble to calculate.

Example 1) Form "X" has an expected frequency of modification of 7 days and it is a trigger for a flow in Power Automate. I want to be notified if(today() - last fill > 8d).

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khawkes 4 on at

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hiya

I am fairly new to PA but have created this flow to check for responses every 24 hours and send an email if no approval:
Hope that helps

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I still did not quite understand, but thank you for your response! :). I will analyze it.

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RobElliott 10,514 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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@Anonymous I suggest you create a SharePoint list with just 1 item and a date/time column, then you get your flow to update it every time the flow is run with today's date. You could then have a second flow with a recurrence trigger set to 1 day. In this flow you would then check if the item has been updated in the last 7 days and if it hasn't then send an email or take some other action.

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