Trigger Condition not working

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Hello, all.

I'm trying to write a Power Automate 365 flow for a work queue that requires a peer review step.

The flow is to be triggered by a change in a field, "Peer Review Status," and sends an email to the assigned Peer Reviewer.

To check for a change in the "Peer Review Status", I created a 'PR trigger' column that is compared to "Peer Review Status". If the columns match, there's been no change to "Peer Review Status", so no trigger. If they don't match, the flow should trigger, sending an email and updating 'PR Trigger' to match the "Peer Review Status" value.

The problem is that the flow isn't running.

My trigger condition is @not(equals(triggerBody()?['PeerReviewStatus/Value'],triggerBody()?['PRTrigger']))

Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong in this trigger that is preventing this from running when Peer Review Status is changed?

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David_MA 14,085 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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I don't see any issues, but to troubleshoot, I would:

Delete the trigger condition.

Add a compose action to your flow and enter your expression in the compose action.

Run the flow. If the expression is not valid, the compose action will fail.

If the expression is valid, check the output of the compose action to ensure it returns either true or false.

For it to work as a trigger condition, the expression must evaluate to true.

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@RA-04061436-0 You might be interested the YT Tutorial linked below. I cover how to compose the trigger condition using a Filter Array action.

4 Ways You Can Use Trigger Conditions in Your Microsoft Power Automate Flow

Trigger conditions can be set in most flow triggers. These conditions you set must be true for the trigger to fire.

In this Power Automate tutorial, I’m going to show you how to use trigger conditions in your flows to control when your Power Automate flows trigger. If your plan has flow run limits—you can avoid triggering your flows unnecessarily by using trigger conditions.

I’ll cover four different flow examples that would benefit from trigger conditions:

⚡️ Triggering a flow when a column is changed to a specific value
⚡️ Triggering a Flow When an Event Updated or Deleted
⚡️ Triggering a Flow When a New Folder is Created
⚡️ Triggering a Flow When a Specific Email is Received

I’ll also show you a trick on how to easily create the expressions needed and give you a few tips on how to troubleshoot your flow.

IN THIS VIDEO:

✓ Four different flows that would benefit from trigger conditions

✓ What is a trigger condition?

✓ How to add a trigger condition to your flow

✓ How to trigger a flow when a column is changed to a specific value

✓ How to trigger a flow when an event is updated or Deleted

✓ How to trigger a flow when a new folder is created

✓ How to trigger a flow when a specific email is received

✓ How to troubleshoot a trigger condition

✓ How to prevent case sensitivity issues with a trigger condition

✓ How to use the filter array action to easily compose an expression that can be used in a trigger condition

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I accomplished this by using a condition around the email sent. Then sometimes you have to put a condition around a condition because the and and or don't want to work right at the top and sometimes you need one of each. I have a working ticket flow that notifies for several status. Then you want to also set conditions that will make it stop looping that is an issue too. I set mine to not send an email if a column was empty or so on. Just depends on how the logic works. Chatgpt is the best for help. Also you may need to use get item if the condition is not satisfied. This helps if you need more detail about an item you are trying to pull.

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