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Condition Always False

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Hi,

 

I'm very new to Power Automate so apologies if this is obvious - it seems very simple so I can't understand why it's not working. 

 

I'm trying to build a simple flow, that will send out emails to people once from an excel spreadsheet. New people will be added over time, so in theory I want the flow to run once a day, to send out the relevant communications to any new additions to the spreadsheet. 

 

The spreadsheet has a "Date email sent" column - in theory, if this column is blank (or contains some kind of text to indicate emails have not been sent yet), I want Power Automate to send the email to the email address on the same row, and then update the "date email sent" cell with todays date, so that next time it runs this row will no longer be actioned. 

 

However, I'm running into one consistent problem: the expression result is false every time, even though as far as I can see, I have the condition set to "No", and that is exactly what is present in the excel table, no extra spaces, capitalisation the same etc. 

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I'm not really sure what I'm doing wrong here, it seems very basic and straightforward?

It is currently set to a button flow but I plan on switching to automated once working as intended.

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  • VictorIvanidze Profile Picture
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    Re: Condition Always False

    Try to use the empty() function in condition.

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
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    Re: Condition Always False

    Hi,

     

    Thank you for the advice, the empty function seems to have resolved that issue. 

     

    When it comes to sending the email, if I use the connector straight to excel, the Send an Email is automatically applied to each, so duplicate copies of the email are sent. I tried initialising and setting a variable for the "To" on Send an Email, but flow read this as being blank?  I'm a bit stuck on how to have the email only sent once, to those that match the condition? 

     

    Thank you in advance for the support, I have tried to look up a solution but I can't seem to see anything that matches (being very much a flow amateur probably doesn't help). 

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