Trigger - do not run flow if specific text is in the column

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Hi everyone.

I have a problem with my flow where I established multiple (2 person) sequential approval flow.

Step1 - when an item is created or modified - start first approval

Step 2 - if the approver 1 approves or rejects the document - update multiline custom column and write his coments in it (Custom column name: Komentar)

Step 3 - if 1st approval was possitive, send another opproval to another person - approver 2

Step 4 - add the comments of the 2nd approver to the multiline text custom column

PROBLEM:

When both of the approvers approve the document and write their comments, the comments are written in the custom multiline tect column, but when the 2nd approver approves the documents, the flow recognises the document as updated and sends again the approval request to the first approver.

If I want to limit the trigger to - do not trigger if the custom column contains text "Dean" I receive a error.

Can someone please help me how to solve it.

Many thanks.
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David_MA 15,530 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

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I would debug your expressions. All trigger conditions must evaluate to true for the flow to run. To do this:

Remove all the trigger conditions.

Add a compose action to your flow and write the first trigger condition as an expression that returns true/false.

Run the flow and check that the expression returned true.

If it did, add it as a trigger condition. You just need to take the expression and put @ in front.

Then repeat for your other three conditions one-at-a-time until all four evaluate to true.

From my understanding, trigger conditions are case sensitive when using contains. As part of your expression, you may want to convert the values to uppercase.
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I have successfully solved the problem by adding the condition in the flow as whosn below.

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Joseph_Fadero 670 Power Up Champ - 2025 on at

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Well-done jruniko,

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