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Help narrowing down When a record is created, updated or deleted

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Posted on by Cooper01 664

I am creating an automated flow using the CDS trigger When a record is created, updated or deleted.

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The crossed out value is the internal name for a text field on the entity. What I want to happen is that every time this value changes, a different record is created in a separate entity. This is working fine. 

What is happening is that every time the data refreshes between my SQL table and the entity, the flow is triggered

Is there a way to narrow this down so that I can only get actual value changes? Not sure if there's a better trigger or I should be using a filter expression...

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  • DeepakS Profile Picture
    DeepakS 2,301 Most Valuable Professional on at

    Hi @Cooper01 

     

    It seems data refresh is triggering the update trigger. 

    here is what i would suggest :

    Option 1)

    - Add a new field in CDS entity to track the changes (so when actual value updated set this field to true else false)

    - on your trigger check if new field is true if yes create new record else ignore

     

    Option 2)

    - On Create Record - Check if the record already exist before creating new one.

     

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