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why does my flow create so many duplicates items - automated flow from list to planner

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Hi everyone, 

 

I've been working on creating manual and automated flows that transfer data from lists/excel to task/planner but despite the flow running successfully, the items are always duplicated at least 3 times. Is there a setting I need to disable or should I be adding an extra step to my flows so each item is only created once? 

 

For example, this is my automated flow that creates an entry in Planner when a new entry is created in lists:

  1. When an item is created
  2. initialize variable
  3. list buckets
  4. apply to each: value
    1. apply to each (2): "assigned to"
      1. create task 
      2. update task details 

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My list items: 

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The planner items: 

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The planner tasks were generated correctly, other than each item being duplicated 7 times... does anyone have any idea as to why they were duplicated? 

 

Thank you so much! 

 

 

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    v-liwei-msft Profile Picture
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    Hi @Cinna103 

     

    The reason for repeated tasks is that the Assigned To column is a multi-selection personnel column (causing Create Task to create duplicates in apply to each).
    You can avoid creating multiple tasks by putting the mail of the multi-select person column into a string variable.

    1.

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    2.

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    Best Regards,

    Levi

     

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