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I have created a flow which starts with “When items is created or modified” for a SharePoint list nad results in sending

A notification to a person which due date is past – using conditions. The flow works great but it runs over and over and as a result the person that is overdue receives mails over and over whihout stops – until I disables the flow…

I would like to run this flow 1 TIME at a specific weekday and as I result send only 1 mail for the persons that their date is overdue

How do I accomplish that?

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v-yuazh-msft on at

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Hi @rory99,

Could you please share a screenshot of the configuration of your flow?

Could you please explain more details about your requirement?

Do you want to run the flow only at specific weekday every week?

If you want to run the flow only at specific weekday every week, you should modify the trigger to "Recurrence", and set the frequency to every week.

If you use the trigger “When items is created or modified”, the flow would be triggered evert time an item is created or modified.

Please share more details so we would try to provide a proper workaround for you.

Best regards,

Alice

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rory99 28 on at

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Hi Alice

I have this flow set up:

The output from the "Add to Time" action is for exsample:
2018-12-27T00:00:00.0000000
Which is compared to the compose 2 action:
formatDateTime(utcnow(),'yyyy-MM-ddT00:00:00.0000000')

Then the condition is comapring the calculated time from the "Add Days" to output of Compose 2 - if ture it sends a notification - this is working well but it send the notification over and over again and not just only when an item is created or modified...I would like it to send it only once to those people who uphold the condition and not over and over...

Thanks

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Hi @rory99,

If you use the trigger “When items is created or modified” in your flow, the flow would be triggered evert time an item is created or modified.

Since you have added an "Apply to each" from all items from the list, the flow "Apply to each" would check for each item to see if the Condition is meet, if the Condition is meet for each item , the email notification would be send for each item in the list.

If you just want to send only one email notification when there is an item in the list meet the Condition, you could refer to screenshot below to create the flow:

Best regards,

Alice

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rory99 28 on at

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Hi Alice

TSorry for the late response but I do not understand this flow
Wahich value am I suppsoed to put in the first "initialize varible" ?

Thanks

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