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Hi Team!

I have a flow which needs to pick data from List A and put it to List B depends on data in single column of Column B (like vlookup in Excel).

First issue - it picks data not for all rows. Looks like its working but only for several data

Second issue: it starts to run every minute although setup is to run only when new item added to List B.

Please help to understand what is wrong here.

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the_dude 361 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Hi MeTan,

Can you share some screenshot(s) of your flow?
I got a feeling that the flow might be triggering itself, but we can only be sure if we inspect the flow.

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Hi @the_dude !

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the_dude 361 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Hi meTan,

Looks like my feeling was correct.
The reason why your flow runs so often is because it triggers on 'when an item is created or modified' and your flow does update item on List B. updating the item = modifying the item and thus running your flow again.

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the_dude 361 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Here's an example from how I recently fixed this issue in one of my flows:

What this basically does is:
1. Get the latest changes on the item
2. Check if either 1 of 2 columns has been changed
3. If not end the flow, if yes continue the flow.

In my scenario I only wanted this flow to run when one of the specified columns was changed.
When applying this, your flow will run normally -> then trigger itself once more but fall into the 'no section' and stop triggering itself from then onwards.

This might not be a fix for your situation and there might be alternative solutions to your scenario but that is entirely depending on the exact usecase of your flow.

Maybe if you tell me a bit more about what your flow does and when it should do it that we can find a fitting solution for it.

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