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Hi Community,

I wondering if you can help with the following flow: I`m trying to trigger an approval flow when a file is created or modified on a SharePoint folder. I added a condition to identified if the file name contains certain information but the output of this condition is always false even though i am adding the correct information in the file name. I would like to know how i should do it in order the condition identify the file name.

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Ed Gonzales 4,531 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Re: Power Automate - Conditional contains

@nnvm

Hey there. Can you show us a pic of the condition? Maybe the input (filename) as well? It might be something as simple as quotes or something, but would like to see what you have first.

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nnvm 12 on at

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Re: Power Automate - Conditional contains

Sure, here you have.

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RobElliott 10,313 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Re: Power Automate - Conditional contains

@nnvm at the risk of stepping on @edgonzales' answer, the text in the condition is case sensitive so it is looking for LAX whereas your file has Lax.

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ScottShearer 25,268 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Re: Power Automate - Conditional contains

@nnvm

I believe thie issue is that string comparisons are case sensitive. Try wrapping the left side of your conditions in an toUpper() expression which will convert the string to upper case.

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nnvm 12 on at

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Re: Power Automate - Conditional contains

Thanks for your solution but it did not work. 😔

The following error appeared: Unable to process template language expressions for action 'Condition' at line '1' and column '2664': 'The template language function 'toUpper' expects its parameter to be a string. The provided value is of type 'Null'. Please see https://aka.ms/logicexpressions#toUpper for usage details.'

I also tried modifying the original flow From LAX to Lax in order to match the file name but it is still bringing as result false.

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ScottShearer 25,268 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Re: Power Automate - Conditional contains

@nnvm

Try wrapping the expression that you have in a coalesce() expression which will provide a default value if your first value is null:'

coalesce(toUpper(triggerBody()?['{FilenameWithExtension}']),'NoValue')

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nnvm 12 on at

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Re: Power Automate - Conditional contains

Unfortunately it did not work either. I continue getting the same message

Unable to process template language expressions for action 'Condition' at line '1' and column '2664': 'The template language function 'toUpper' expects its parameter to be a string. The provided value is of type 'Null'. Please see https://aka.ms/logicexpressions#toUpper for usage details.'.

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ScottShearer 25,268 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Re: Power Automate - Conditional contains

@nnvm

Sorry about that....

What I should have posted is this:

toUpper(coalesce(triggerBody()?['{FilenameWithExtension}'],'No Value'))

The concept is that the text No Value will be returned if the file name is null.

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Gus 136 on at

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Re: Power Automate - Conditional contains

case sensitive test fixed my issue. ty

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