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Hi all,

I have a really simple flow that goes like this:

1. Trigger when column 'x' in a dataverse table is modified

2 Condition if value = 'abcd' then send a message in Teams chat

Except...it won't send a message when the condition is true, in other words when value = abcd I get a message that the condition outcome was false.

If I change the condition to not equal to, then it works. Except it works for every variant of text in the cell.

The cell in question is a Choice cell, don't know if that's something to with it.

What am I doing wrong?

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eetuRobo 4,401 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Can you share screenshot of your condition and what syntax you have in the condition?

Sounds like maybe your condition is not referring to that correct column.
Add compose before the condition that has the value of the column. So it would show the 'abcd' if you modified it to that.

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MrGiant 24 on at

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Hi...

I think the column if fine. Like I said it works if I have a not equal to condition set but fails if I have an equal to condition. The condition that gets a response is shown below.

Also do the boxes need to be ticked? Apologies if that's a stupid question but when I tick them, sometimes they stay that way and sometimes they don't.

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"Like I said it works if I have a not equal to condition set but fails if I have an equal to condition."
I think that means that the value was not "abcd" which might be due to wrong reference or the value is not exactly that.

I do recommend you add compose before the condition where you have . Its always good practice to add composes to troubleshoot that shows the value you are checking. So to make sure that body/newRelevant1 and body/newRelevant2 BOTH have the exact value you are looking for.

Are the both condition rows checking same value? So are those body/new_releva… both same reference or are one of them for exampele body/new_relevant1 and other body/new_relevant2?

If they are the same then you can't use AND since they cant equal "Not relevant" and "T.B.C." At the same time. So change the condition to be OR.

So if that is the same column in both condition rows then change AND to OR

The check boxes are just for grouping so if you would want only some operands to be linked with AND and some with OR for example. So its for advanced conditional logic.

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MrGiant 24 on at

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Thanks I will try the OR and let you know.

The actual options are dropdown choices rather than typed text so in theory there should be no variation.

Excuse my ignorance but I'm a noob at this. How does compose work?

And thanks for the help.

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MrGiant 24 on at

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The OR didn't work :(

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No worries :)

Compose is an action that you can use to have expressions in or just view what other actions outputs are. For example when ever you retrieve an array you could have compose action to check the length of that array. So troubleshooting you can quickly check if that compose has something in it or not.

result: So the length of my array is 10001

Or in your case you could check what value the body/new_relevant has in it. So just put the body/new_relevant in compose and run the flow to see what it returns.

This video explains it well too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqYgn6MFD94&t=305s

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