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Workflow to notify via team (but only the latest updated appended text)

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Hi All,

 

Quite new to power automate (my strength lies in Power Apps). 

 

I have an workflow app for a team to manage requests from the business. There is an ability for the both team members, and users to leave notes for each other (this occurs via a simple append formula, adding the latest text to a multi-text field).

 

I have a workflow set up that triggers via:

- If the "Notes" field is updated, then:

1. Send an email to the team member IF not modified by the team member, or

2. Send an email to the user IF modified by the team member.

 

To date this works well, but I was hoping to optimise and move this into Teams to reduce email. 

 

At first the flow below works fine, BUT two issues:

 

1. It triggers whenever the any part of the item is modified and not just the notes.

2. Is there a way to add only the most recent appended text into the body of the message and not the whole historical text?

 

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For context my condition is:

- Has the notes column changed = true

- Has the item been modified by the team member = not true

 

If true, notify the team member

If false, notify the user

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

DW

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  • TYL Profile Picture
    1,091 Super User 2024 Season 2 on at

    @DGWolfe  Hi! The best thing you could do is expand your condition. Since you have the action "get changes" already, you can write an additional statement to only to do specific actions if ''notes has changed" is "true".

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    1,091 Super User 2024 Season 2 on at

    @DGWolfe  Sorry, I haven't noticed you have this already. This should be sufficient to filter out all other changes actually! When you really want the trigger to only trigger when notes changes, you might want to use "trigger conditions". This article: Power Automate Trigger Conditions made EASY - Power Platform Community (microsoft.com) explains that very well. Do know however that trigger conditions only work when you know in advance to which value a column is changing (for instance: from status "processing" to "processed").

  • DGWolfe Profile Picture
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    This is great, thank you @Tjan 

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