Building a self-triggering flow

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Posted on by Daniël

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Good day all,

I would like to build a flow that does the following:

*trigger* -> pick up Sharepoint item -> condition: item contains a certain value

-> condition met: scrub value -> delay flow two weeks -> *start from beginning*

-> condition not met: update other values - end flow

My issue lies in the part where the flow starts from the beginning. Can anyone tell me how I get a flow to start over or trigger itself again?

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StretchFredrik 3,308 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Re: Building a self-triggering flow

Instead of retriggering, can you not just delay the flow 14 days and then continue? Or could it re-trigger more than 1 time?

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Daniël 147 on at

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Re: Building a self-triggering flow

Hi StretchFredrik,

Thank you for replying. I would indeed like the flow to be able to retrigger. To give more context: this is an extension flow. I would like the action to be extended when a user updates an item with a value. The flow scrubs this value and check again after two weeks. If the value is put back by the user, it will scrub this again and wait again. The flow should not finish running until the value is scrubbed and stays scrubbed.

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VictorIvanidze 12,894 on at

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Re: Building a self-triggering flow

I think a scheduled flow that runs every day will fit your needs completely. Just compare new and old (stored) values of the "sharepoint item".

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Daniël 147 on at

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Re: Building a self-triggering flow

Hi Victor, I think that might actually be a solution for this. Do you have any suggestions on how I can best approach this in regards to checking that it has been added two weeks ago? Otherwise it would remove it after a day.

Actually, this may not be the solution in my use-case and the reason is as follows: when updating the values of the item, I am using the values of one item, to calculate the other. For a flow that runs daily, I would have to run multiple calculations simultaneously on the same value. This doesn't work for two reasons:
- doing these calculations at the same time may result into problematic outcomes.
- in the 'Apply to each' field, I am unable to even select the dynamic numerical values to make these calculations.
Are there any suggestions on how to solve this? Or does anyone know how to solve my original question of a self-triggering flow?

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