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Flow trigger condition for MS Form submitted

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Posted on by grantjenkins 11,059 Super User 2025 Season 1

We have a flow that is triggered when an anonymous MS Form is submitted.

What we want to do is setup a condition on the trigger (not a condition action) that checks the result of one of the questions in the MS Form and only run the flow (trigger will succeed) if it's a certain value. So if it's not a particular value then zero actions will be run on that flow.

The reasoning behind this is related to the extremely low billable action limits on flows, so we need a way to prevent any unnecessary actions running. In my mind the low limits almost make Power Automate a non-viable option for a lot of what we're trying to do unfortunately.

Does anyone know how to achieve this? Thanks in advance.

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    Pstork1 67,060 Most Valuable Professional on at
    Re: Flow trigger condition for MS Form submitted

    Just out of curiosity what "billable actions" are you referring to?  Power Automate has an API limit per 24 hours, Is that what you are referring to?

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    grantjenkins 11,059 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at
    Re: Flow trigger condition for MS Form submitted

    Thanks,

    I was hoping that wasn't the case. Guess we'll have to look at another solution.

    The main issue we're trying to mitigate is the number of billable actions that run and this would have reduced a large number of them since our flow is running a lot (thousands of times) over some 24 hour periods.

    If this was an option (trigger condition for MS Form) we would have been able to reduce the flows that actually ran by almost 90% and as such reduced the billable actions by thousands. Makes for a pretty good cost model for Microsoft 😞

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    grantjenkins 11,059 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at
    Re: Flow trigger condition for MS Form submitted

    Hi Christian,

    I already know how to setup triggers (done a bunch of them). This was specifically around the MS Forms submission trigger and being able to test values within the form on the trigger.

    Thanks anyway - appreciated.

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    Pstork1 67,060 Most Valuable Professional on at
    Re: Flow trigger condition for MS Form submitted

    I don't think you'll be able to do that.  To setup a trigger condition requires that the values you want to test are included in the trigger.  The answers to the specific form being submitted are not included in the forms trigger.  You have to use a second action to retrieve the details in order to see the answers.  Since the answers are not present in the trigger they can't be used in a trigger condition.

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    ChristianAbata 8,949 Most Valuable Professional on at
    Re: Flow trigger condition for MS Form submitted

    hi @grantjenkins  you can use trigger conditions Condiciones en los desencadenadores o Trigger Conditions - Power Minds

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