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Posted on 30 Aug 2023 16:23:49 by jnakhle

For some reason my flow gets trigger twice at the same time after just one submission. I am not referencing any other flows. What could I do to fix this? Is there a trigger condition I could set to prevent the second trigger?

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creativeopinion 10,466 Super User 2025 Season 2 on 07 Mar 2025 at 00:49:39

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Flow triggering twice after one submission

It's hard to offer any recommendations without seeing your full flow and the logic behind it. If you are using the new designer, toggle it off and click each action to expand it. Upload a screenshot of your flow in edit mode.

If you are using an automated trigger in your flow—it's always best practice to include trigger conditions. Not sure how to do this? Check out this YT Tutorial:

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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JM-06032314-0 5 on 06 Mar 2025 at 23:33:00

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Flow triggering twice after one submission

Hey there, I had same a similar issue, I've got a flow that triggers each time a keyword is sent in a couple of chats, it was working just fine but then for some reason the flow started running twice whenever a keyword was mentioned.

After doing some tests on both the chats where the flow could be triggered from I found that this behaviour only ocurred in one of the chats, when a keyword was sent in the other chat the flow ran once as expected, all I did then was: remove the chat that was presenting problems from the "When a keyword is mentioned" trigger, I saved and then added it again, and it was back to normal.
Hope this helps if someone faces the same scenario.
ELAISA12345 5 on 21 Mar 2024 at 17:50:50

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Re: Flow triggering twice after one submission

I was facing the same issue and I read dozens of posts like this. What works for me was copy the flow, turn off the old flow and when I run the copied flow, It not runs twice anymore.
NPPlatform 606 Moderator on 14 Nov 2023 at 08:02:22

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Re: Flow triggering twice after one submission

I had the same problem of flows triggering twice and your setup (adding a terminate after the Respond to Powerapps-step) seems to work for me too. Thanks for sharing!
tmd 8 on 02 Oct 2023 at 19:53:16

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Re: Flow triggering twice after one submission

I also have this issue and it began Sept 29, 2023. I can only speculate there is an issue on the backend of Power Automate as I have used these automations for three years now and this is the first time it has happened. I do not have the "Respond to PowerApp or Flow" step in any of my automations.
brianxp 15 on 05 Sep 2023 at 02:22:02

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Re: Flow triggering twice after one submission

Edit: Apparently the conditional way did not work as I thought. However, unlike before, having the "Respond to PowerApp or flow" step added normally does not timeout anymore, even when triggered directly and not from another flow or PowerApp. The below setup seems to work okay now too.

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Just an update to the above, at least on my end.

I'm not sure exactly why but it seems like having the "Respond to PowerApp or Flow" present in the flow, causes it to trigger twice for some reason regardless of where that step is placed in the flow.

Even if I terminate the flow before it reaches that step, it'll still trigger twice.

Originally I had a set up like the following:

If the flow was triggered directly on Power Automate, the "Respond to a PowerApp or flow" step would time out and I would set Terminate to run after if the previous Scope had a time out. However, if it was triggered from PowerApps or another flow, it would be fine.

Again, even though the flow does not reach this step, it'll trigger twice.

Taking a different approach, I have somehow been able to prevent this issue. I have a Yes/No flag set on the Manual trigger. If true, it'll try to do the "Respond to a PowerApp or flow" step.

I still don't quite understand why this works since the previous version of the flow did not even reach the Try scope. Additionally, this does not explain why resubmitting the flow from the flow run history does not reproduce the issue. Perhaps resubmitting is treated differently than executing/testing?

Perhaps by simply existing in the flow, the flow is expecting some sort of callback or something and, since that doesn't happen, it immediate runs twice but does not expect a callback if being resubmitted? It's a big mystery to me.

Anyways, a day has passed since I tried my solution so I'll double check that it is still working. If not, I'll follow up.

brianxp

15 on 04 Sep 2023 at 00:52:05

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Re: Flow triggering twice after one submission

I'm actually running into a very similar issue so I thought I'd share. I've submitted two tickets to Microsoft Power Platform support but neither has been responded to. The first ticket was submitted 2 weeks ago but I am not sure how long the response time is typically.

Not sure if the below info helps but maybe there are some commonalities?

Some facts

Multiple flows have the same problem
These flows share the same Connection Reference
These flows exist in the same solution
Running them normally causes them to trigger twice
Running them with the Test button causes them to trigger twice
They all use a manual trigger
There are not any errors
They call child flows
New flows created do not have this problem (as far as I have tested) but they are simple flows but use the same Connection Reference as the other flows which do have the problem
Looking at the Connection Reference details before running the flow, the flow will appear once under "Flows using this connection"
Looking at the Connection Reference details after running the flow, the flow appears twice
Many of them use a "Respond to PowerApp or Flow" step. However, as indicated below, to test that none of the steps flowing the Manual trigger are causing the issue, I tried adding a Terminate "Successful" step immediate after the trigger and the issue still occurs.
The flows exist in both Solution A (Development environment) and Solution B (Production). The fundamental difference is that Solution A flows have been updated to use manual triggers. Solution B uses Recurrence triggers. Solution B flows do not experience this issue.

Things I have tried

Description	Result
Removing the flow from the solution and adding it back in	Same issue
Deleting the manual trigger, replacing it with a different trigger, saving the flow and then changing it back to a manual trigger	Same issue
Creating new connection references and having the flow use that one instead	Same issue
Deleting the old connection reference and creating a new one	Same issue
Terminating the flow with the Terminate action right after the manual trigger	Same issue
Resubmitting a flow that has already ran	Issue does not happen

jnakhle 18 on 30 Aug 2023 at 17:26:10

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Re: Flow triggering twice after one submission

Here is a screenshot of what the user sees. They select an option, the user fills in information, then submits the form that then gets emailed to a certain group of people. However I just noticed something - there are 5 options here but only 4 branches? I sent a test to the one branch not in the form I sent screenshots to and the flow ran successfully. Does that mean there must be another flow in use?
trice602 14,110 Super User 2025 Season 2 on 30 Aug 2023 at 17:21:29

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Re: Flow triggering twice after one submission

Hi @jnakhle ,

My reply was incorrect here so removed it. FYI -
Nived_Nambiar 17,972 Super User 2025 Season 2 on 30 Aug 2023 at 17:14:51

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Re: Flow triggering twice after one submission

Hi @jnakhle

So in each branch you are sending email to person to fill form which they need to submit (is it the same form?)

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