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Posted on by AdaEloka

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to build a flow that updates a person column based on the value in a text field and also avoid an infinite loop. I want the flow to run only when the value in UnitHeadText is not equal to the value in the UnitHead person column in sharepoint. However, I'm not sure how to achieve this...

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Try adding a Trigger Condition. I tried this as it appears to work and doesn't trigger an infinite loop. This is Assuming that your UnitHeadText is formatted like a claims token (example: i:0#.f|membership|rickadmin@0v42t.onmicrosoft.com

@not(equals(triggerOutputs()?['body/UnitHead#Claims'], triggerOutputs()?['body/UnitHeadText']))

To avoid the infinite loop you must update the SharePoint item so that UnitHead Claims and UnitHeadText are equal before the flow completes.

Full flow:

SharePoint List values before flow runs:

SharePoint List values after flow runs:

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Rick Hurt

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