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Need help in stop adding duplicates in a SharePoint List

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Hi Team, I have totally 5 columns in a SharePoint List. Few people copy and paste via excel or do a manual entry. 

 

I wanted to trigger an email if column PO NUMBER and LINE NUMBER is already available in the list.

 

Example: if the list has PO NUMBER column is 123456 and line number is 5 and if a user tried to add the same two entries then I wanted to trigger an alert to an email ID. Is this possible?

 

Thanks,

Ram

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    78 on at
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  • abm abm Profile Picture
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    Re: Need help in stop adding duplicates in a SharePoint List

    Hi @ram_ESP 

     

    Could you please post a screenshot of your flow? 

     

    Thanks

  • ram_ESP Profile Picture
    78 on at
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    I see another problem now. the PO Number and Line Number values added to the list and I am not getting an email.

     

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    I have tried to add the existing column value and it is not triggering an email.

  • ram_ESP Profile Picture
    78 on at
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    Found the issue with column expression. They have used Title as PO Number column name. I changed the expression.

  • abm abm Profile Picture
    32,492 Most Valuable Professional on at
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    Hi @ram_ESP 

     

    Again if you look carefully the filter query you used capital case AND. This should be small case and. See my earlier thread.

     

    Thanks

  • ram_ESP Profile Picture
    78 on at
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    HI, I see the same error with or without codes for the same filter query you used. I have used even and in Uppercase and Lowecase in the filter query and still the same error.

     

    PO Number - Column Type is Single line of Text

    Line Number - Column Type is Single line of Text

     

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  • abm abm Profile Picture
    32,492 Most Valuable Professional on at
    Re: Need help in stop adding duplicates in a SharePoint List

    Hi @ram_ESP 

     

    I already mentioned in my earlier post. You can't put spaces for the columns under the filter query.

     

    See below

     

    Under the filter query you can see I used PO_x0020_NUMBER, that's because the column name have spaces between. If you don't have spaces then use PONUMBER. Also here I created both columns as numeric. If they are string the use single quotes around it under the filter query.

     

     

    Thanks

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  • ram_ESP Profile Picture
    78 on at
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    This is the error

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    78 on at
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    Hi Team, This is showing an error. 

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