Workflows bot spamming erratically when replying to a new message in teams channel

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I have configured my workflows bot such that when a new post is created in the configured teams channel, it will reply with a message as flow bot.

The issue is it works fine for all other teams channels, except the one I wanted to deploy it to.

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It works perfectly upon replying to messages, but it is also at times creating that message as a post and spamming it randomly, when no one has posted anything new.

Anyone knows the fix for this issue?

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Michael E. Gernaey 53,963 Moderator on at

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Hi @AM-03071255-0

Would have to see a specific flow run, where it did this, so we can see The Trigger inputs and outputs, so we can see WHY it thought it needed to run.

That's the only way to help

1. Go to the Flows Details Page

2. Click on a Run that did the behavior

3. Click on the Trigger and review its Inputs and Outputs

Either its triggering on retries, or some bogus messages that people delete or its triggering correctly and for the correct Team, but you are accidentally somehow posting to the wrong one.

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Riyaz_riz11 4,150 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi,

Add a Condition immediately after the trigger

Insert a Condition action:

Expression (example):

triggerOutputs()?['body/from/user/displayName']

Operator:

is not equal to

Value:

Flow bot

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Riyaz

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Thanks for your suggestions.

I have tried both using:

triggerOutputs()?['body/from/user/displayName'] not equal to Flow bot

the condition result is false and is getting skipped even though the user is not Flow bot

and

@not(equals(triggerOutputs()?['body/eventDetail/initiator/user/displayName'], 'Flow bot'))
@not(equals(triggerOutputs()?['body/eventDetail/initiator/user/displayName'],null))

inside the trigger conditions field under settings of "When a new message gets added in a channel"

But the flow does not seem to work even for normal cases when this is added.

Here is my input when I went inside a past run where it ran erratically

{

"headers": {

"Transfer-Encoding": "chunked",

"...

"id": "1751557619119",

"body": {

"contentType": "html",

"content": "<systemEventMessage/>"

},

"channelIdentity": {

"teamId": "4a321968-f7fe-4cf5-8cd8-76d5493bcb00",

"channelId": "19:ZeJ4JalaRc4tXanIqfXft5_HXsp5cqFlcq_cvlK3hyw1@thread.tacv2"

},

"attachments": [],

"mentions": [],

"reactions": [],

"eventDetail": {

"@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.membersAddedEventMessageDetail",

"visibleHistoryStartDateTime": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",

"members": [

{

"id": "61c52e51-093c-4673-996d-73591743a486",

"displayName": null,

"userIdentityType": "aadUser",

"tenantId": "3d44f5c7-726e-45cd-b26c-3e58cddea376"

}

],

"initiator": {

"application": null,

"device": null,

"user": {

"@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.teamworkUserIdentity",

"id": "61c52e51-093c-4673-996d-73591743a486",

"displayName": null,

"userIdentityType": "aadUser",

"tenantId": "3d44f5c7-726e-45cd-b26c-3e58cddea376"

}

}

}

}

}

As you can see the user display name is null.

Did I miss anything?

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Michael E. Gernaey 53,963 Moderator on at

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Hi @AM-03071255-0

Are you still having an issue?

Can you share your configuration and maybe your bot?

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