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Flow creates duplicate Microsoft List items upon form submission

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Hello,

I've created a Form to collect Schedule Requests from employees and then have a flow that adds the responses to a List followed by initiating an Approval. Everything works great except that it keeps creating 2 list entries at the same time when an employee submits the form.

 

It's driving me insane that I can't find the root cause. Any help is appreciated 🙂

 

*Of note, when the approval is completed, the flow updates the Approval status column to Accepted or Rejected but only on the second one of the duplicate entries.

*Also of note, when I "test" the flow Manually (by filling out the form after choosing Manual test) it duplicates the listings. However, when testing automatically using the last successful entry, it correctly creates only one entry in the list. So the duplicate ONLY happens when someone actually submits the form.

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    Hi @Anonymous ,

     

    Please try ordering the flow like this:

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    The Apply to Each loop is no longer needed to process the forms response. And in the Condition action use Outcome in place of Response. Outcome will give you the final verdict of the approval action.

     

    Hope this helps.

     


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    Thank you @ekarim2020,

    I will say that I realized the actual problem this morning. I still had a test flow running so there were 2 flows running on the form submission. My mistake. So the real problem was that I had duplicate flows! 

     

    I did, however, create a new flow using your method and that worked as well. I think I will use your method as it doesn't require the apply to each function. Yours looks cleaner. Thanks again 🙂

     

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