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I have created a long flow, now I realize I have chosen the wrong trigger, if I delete the current trigger, I may lose the following actions in the flow. How can change the trigger type without losing following steps?

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LRVinNC 2,297 on at

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It depends on which trigger you are using. If your trigger does not have any outputs used by other actions in your flow, you can simply right click, choose delete and remove the old trigger and then choose your new trigger.

If the trigger contains outputs that are being referenced later in your flow, you'll have to remove the references to those outputs in the later actions before you can remove and replace the trigger.

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v-bacao-msft Microsoft Employee on at

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Hi @Anonymous ,

If the following action uses the output of the trigger body, then when you delete the trigger, the configured content will be removed.

You could consider using a workaround that you can create a copy of Flow. Whenever I need to change the complex configuration of a Flow, I often click Save as to create a copy of the Flow first, which will help restore the configuration of the previous version.

https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/make-a-copy/

Please take a try.

Best Regards,

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_MichaelVD_ 20 on at

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I had a similar issue , I created a flow with trigger "Cognitoforms - When a new entry is created"
but I also wanted to use the same flow for the trigger "Cognitoforms - When a new entry is updated"

So I created a copy of my first flow deleted the trigger action and changed it to the trigger "Cognitoforms - When a new entry is updated" and saved this copy.
Opened this copy and used export > Package (.zip) to export it to my computer as a zip with json files.

Then I created another copy of my first flow also exported this as a Package (.zip) with json files.

Then I unzipped both of the zip files and opened the following file with notepad++ (or another editor) : Microsoft.Flow\flows\123456-a54e-46azr2-969a-be0470611ae4\definition.json file

Then I copied everything between the brackets of "triggers":{ ...... } from the definition.json file of the new trigger ("Cognitoforms - When a new entry is updated" ) to "triggers":{......} in the other file zipped the files again of the folder with the replaced triggers content and imported that zip back into flows .

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DappMan 11 on at

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Thanks for this tip @_MichaelVD_ I faced the exact same challenge with cognitoforms and your suggestion was very helpful.
Another option which also worked for me on another flow is as follows:

Open the flow and move all the actions into a scope.
create a copy of the flow by using the Save as option in Microsoft power automate
Open the new copy of the flow on another tab and delete the scope and the trigger, then add the new trigger
on the original flow, click on the three dots of the scope action and select copy to my clipboard
paste the copied scope into the appropriate section of the new flow
save the new flow and test

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davidlepre 25 on at

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Thank you. This works very well. This saved me a tremendous amount of time as my flow is very large. It can take up to 1 minute just for my flow to show on the screen....that is how large it is.

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mrpowergage 234 on at

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I fixed this not work for me. after I delete I was getting this:
However I reordered some actions. In my case I moved a dataverse 'add new row' action above another dataverse action, and the add trigger dialogue came up.

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WalletPhoneKeys 13 on at

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This is a great workaround.

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ctrl_kudorje 173 on at

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Yet another reason why redundant work is being forced on this tool's users. Why are we needing to resort to such manual steps?

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mariagiugno 23 on at

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THANK YOU!!!

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