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Power Automate - Using Flows
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"When an item is created or modified" trigger doesn't work the first time

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Posted on 12 Oct 2018 13:58:43 by

Hello there!

 

My situation: I found the template "Book a new calendar event after a new SharePoint List item is created" and used it as reference. It uses the "When an item is created" trigger and works perfectly. I also used the "When an item is deleted" trigger and that one also worked. But when I use the "When an item is created or modified" trigger, it only runs when I start it twice.

 

e.g.
I have six items in my list. Then I modify one of them (change some values). After that the flow doesn't get triggered. But when I modify a second item in my list, for some strange reason, the first flow gets triggered and then the second one. It follows that pattern: First one doesn't trigger, second one triggers both.

 

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I found several posts which are about the "created and modified" trigger, but no one wrote about what I experience. Any clues why it won't trigger the first time?

  • FlorianTrine Profile Picture
    17 on 24 Apr 2020 at 09:34:48
    Re: "When an item is created or modified" trigger doesn't work the first time

    Hello NicoleHarris, 

     

    The issue described was not related to a timing thing. Waiting 5 minutes more did not triggering the worklow.

    If we waited 10 minutes, 30 minutes or 1hour, the workflow did not start.

    We had to edit something else (or the same item a second time) to trigger the workflow.

  • NicoleHarris Profile Picture
    24 on 23 Apr 2020 at 15:47:02
    Re: "When an item is created or modified" trigger doesn't work the first time

    I think this may be a timing thing. I've found that this Flow isn't triggered immediately upon a item being updated/created, but rather that it takes up to 5 minutes (most of the time just a couple seconds to a minute) for the edit/creation to trigger the Flow. That seems to be by the design of Flow.

  • denglish Profile Picture
    128 on 30 Dec 2019 at 15:16:18
    Re: "When an item is created or modified" trigger doesn't work the first time

    I am experiencing this same issue. Is there a corresponding item on the Reported Issues that I can upvote?

  • LeonV Profile Picture
    2 on 02 Aug 2019 at 13:52:38
    Re: "When an item is created or modified" trigger doesn't work the first time

    Same issue here with "When an item is created or modified" trigger.

  • Aaronk21234 Profile Picture
    26 on 25 Mar 2019 at 14:56:23
    Re: "When an item is created or modified" trigger doesn't work the first time

    Having the same issue.  Will have to move my trigger from SharePoint "When an item is created or modified" to a PowerApps trigger.

     

    Has something changed?  Is there internal logic to prevent a "When an item is created or modified" infinite loop that is halting or aandoning triggers?  Although I don't want to accidentlly create an infinite loop, I also want the triggers to fire correctly once the loop is handled in the code.  Flow should either reject "...modified" flows that alter the trigger source, or allow looping and require devs to correct as needed.

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    on 11 Mar 2019 at 15:53:01
    Re: "When an item is created or modified" trigger doesn't work the first time
    I moved completely to powerapps and manual triggered workflow. Very sad that the MS team has overseen this bug.
  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    on 11 Mar 2019 at 07:14:00
    Re: "When an item is created or modified" trigger doesn't work the first time

    Sadly I didn't find a real solution.

     

    The only workaround I found was by replacing the original SharePoint editform with a customized one from PowerApps. In the app you can call your flow with your functions.

     

    But as I said that's not a real solution. I don't want to use a customized app to edit my items.

  • FlorianTrine Profile Picture
    17 on 07 Mar 2019 at 16:29:47
    Re: "When an item is created or modified" trigger doesn't work the first time

    I am encountering the same issue on a demo tenant.

    In order to trigger a workflow on the event "created or modified", I have to edit two different items.

    If I edit only the first one, I will wait several minutes without seeing anything happening from the Flow side.

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    on 07 Mar 2019 at 07:37:47
    Re: "When an item is created or modified" trigger doesn't work the first time

    Same issue here. 

    very annoying. 

  • gsaplontai Profile Picture
    14 on 14 Feb 2019 at 07:58:56
    Re: "When an item is created or modified" trigger doesn't work the first time

    Hello,

     

    I face exactly the same issue and it's quite annoying because I want to use this flow to create documents. Did you found a fix?

     

    THank you,

    Gabriel

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