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Get changes for an item or a file (properties only) doesn't capture the needed change

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Hi there! 

 

I am testing this flow for a month at least now. The problem I have encountered is that sometimes (not always) for some kind of reason, "Get changes for an item or a file (properties only)" action doesn't capture the needed change in the sharepoint document library in a choice type column. I cannot identify the correlation at the moment, but this looks super odd to me. So like it sees the change in the Remarks column of a short text type, or in the Date modified, but not in that one that I set as in the condition "Has the column changed" that follows after this action. 

 

Maybe anybody else has faced this problem and found the reason or any workaround? Because I need to identify exactly the change in the column, not for a flow to succeed after every time any kind of a change happens to the folder. 

 

Thank you so much in advance for any advice!!! 

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    Dear V,

    Not sure why this happens, but if it makes you feel any better ... there are hundreds of forum entries which cover similar ground on a trigger not working correctly when a change to a file has occurred. So you are not alone.

     

    The solution to this would seem to me that rather than trigger your flow to start when a change has occurred, you trigger the flow in a scheduled manner (every 1, 2, 5, 20min, ... every 1, 2, 3 days ...) and do a comparison with your latest checked copy and the most current copy and executes actions based on the changes.

    I know this is a bit more work and not how it is 'supposed' to be, but if you MUST capture all the changes ... this would seem to be the only way for now.

     

    Hope this helps,

    Happy flowing,

    Koen

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