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I am trying to set up a flow that triggers when an item is moved between folders in a SharePoint list. Unfortunately, it appears that using the "When an item is created or modified" does not trigger when the item is moved.

Are there any other options or am I missing something?

Thank you in advance.

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Andrew_J 1,962 Moderator on at

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@number_5

Think about this ins a different way maybe. Use the "when a file is deleted"

https://sharepains.com/2018/05/02/when-a-file-an-item-deleted-triggers/

Let me know if the above works for you. Maybe look into the above trigger a little more.

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Andrew

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number_5 11 on at

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@Andrew_J I appreciate the suggestion. Unfortunately, "when a file is deleted" does not appear to work on list items (you can only use this on document libraries, as far as I can tell) and "when an item is deleted" is restricted to "site collection admins", which may or may not be a serious limitation for some users. I am not a site collection admin at this time, so it certainly does not seem as it would be a workable option.

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To accomplish what I was looking to do, unfortunately, I did the following:

Requirement: create a new column in the list to track the "last path"

In the flow:

1) use a timed trigger (or, really, any trigger you like)
2) get SP items (with necessary filters)
3) set up a condition to check the "last path" for each item
a) If the "folder path" does not equal "last path"
a1) Update the "last path" (with SP update item) to the current path and execute the desired action

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