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How to trigger a flow when an item is selected in a SharePoint List

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Posted on 21 Dec 2024 16:13:09 by 6
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Can you please help me. Can you guide me on the steps to follow,  to trigger a flow whenever a value is selected from a dropdown in SharePoint List. I am choosing a Manager  from a Column "Assigned To" .   I would like a task to be created in Planner and the task is assigned to the Manager ( in Planner)
 
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    David_MA 8,050 on 23 Dec 2024 at 14:56:25
    How to trigger a flow when an item is selected in a SharePoint List
    I would do what @CFernandes suggested with one modification. In addition to checking the version history to see if the value has changed, I would add a trigger condition to only run the flow if the "Assigned To" field is populated. This will prevent unnecessary triggers of your flow. You would use this as the trigger condition expression: @not(empty(triggerOutputs()?['body/AssignedTo/Email']))
     
    The highlighted portion of the expression will be the internal name of your people field.
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    CFernandes 8,114 on 22 Dec 2024 at 18:51:43
    How to trigger a flow when an item is selected in a SharePoint List
     
    You can use "New “When an item or file is modified” trigger." and then use "“Get changes to an item or file (properties only)”
     
     
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    Nived_Nambiar 16,897 on 22 Dec 2024 at 05:03:45
    How to trigger a flow when an item is selected in a SharePoint List
     
    Try using when item is selected trigger as described in below blog:- 
     
     
     
    Or another approach i could think of is - using when item is modfiied trigger and then verifying whether Assigned To column has changed and if yes - do actions based on that 
     
     

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