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Hi everyone,

I am in the middle of trying to build flow which triggers a mail merge when a teacher has written some feedback in a row. I am aware that I need to pass only the rows which trigger the condition down the chain but I can't quite work out how to do it.

Any help would be appreciated. Currently, the Flow below emails all of the students and writes Done! in all of the rows, but I just want it to send emails from the rows which have feedback in.

Thank you in advance,

Iain

First, it gets rows.

get rows.PNG

Then it checks if 'Feedbackcheck' cell contains 'Done!'. If it does, then do nothing.

If yes do nothing.PNG

If it doesn't, it checks 'Feedback column'.

Send and email and update row.PNG

If that is not empty, then send an email and update the row.

Send and email and update row.PNG

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Hi @Anonymous,

I have made a test on my side and the flow works well. Please take a try with the following workaround.
You mentioned "Then it checks if 'Feedbackcheck' cell contains 'Done!'. If it does, then do nothing.", so the first condition may need to use contains instead of equals to.
Then use the expression -empty() function in the advanced mode of the second condition to determine if the Feedback column contains a value.
Expression:
@empty(items('Apply_to_each')?['Feedback'])
Finally, by populating Email Dynamic content in the Send email action, you could send the email to the email corresponding to the row containing the value in the Feedback column.
Please take a try.

Best Regards,
Barry

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Hi Barry,

It works! Thank you!

So it was really the
@empty(items('Apply_to_each')?['Feedback'])
which I didn't really get.

So is this what it does?
@look for empty (which things?(what array?) [which column?]

Best,
Iain

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