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I have a Flow which creates folders inside a Teams channel when this channel is created. So the trigger is 'When An Item is created' in Sharepoint(since the team channel creates a Folder in Sharepoint Library).

On triggering it creates Folders inside this new Channel, which is achieved by Create Folder activity at the 'NewItem/' location. This creates a new Folder inside the New Channel but it additionally creates a new folder in the Team's Sharepoint.

I understand that creating a New Folder in the ChannelFolder is triggering it again, Is there a way to escape this Loopew

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Nived_Nambiar 18,029 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Re: 'When an item is created' triggers infinitely

Hi @deepesh1

For this , I would suggest a trigger condition which checks whether the folder is created in main folder where teams channel folder is created, if it is created in subfolder under channels folder, it should not trigger the process.

I have developed a demo process

Here I am triggering a flow when a folder is created in Documents folder in sharepoint.
In compose function, you can see three components there.

1) Full Path: the full path to folder created.
2) Folder Path: the parent folder in which that folder is created.
3) 3 rd section checks whether the folder is created under Document folder or not, in other word that expressions check whether the parent folder of the created folder is Documents folder.
expression: equals(triggerOutputs()?['body/{Path}'],'Shared Documents/')

This expression you can insert into the trigger condition like below

Note: The folder Documents is appearing as Shared Documents when looking at power automate output. So before writing the trigger condition, check what is Parent folder for your created folder using the Folder variable [ discussed as second section] and then add the folder name correctly in that trigger condition instead of Shared Documents/ if it seems to be different for you.

Hope this helps you 🙂

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deepesh1 8 on at

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Re: 'When an item is created' triggers infinitely

Thanks @Nived_Nambiar , That was very very helpful. Had a few questions:
Did you Use Compose to defined all 3 variables in a single Action? I am not sure how you did the condition part.
To make it work with you idea, I added a condition that just checks if FolderPath equals "Shared Documents/" and it worked like a charm!

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Nived_Nambiar 18,029 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Re: 'When an item is created' triggers infinitely

Hi @deepesh1

I think you are talking about this

This is the settings done in the Trigger part, this is would prevent trigger the flow if this condition is not satisfied.

How you can add trigger condition , follow the steps:
1. Click on settings in trigger by clicking on 3 dots (...)

2. Next at the bottom, you can find the trigger condition, click add trigger condition

3. Add the trigger condition which i have shared earlier

This would help to prevent the run from start if condition is not satisifed.

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