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Avoiding repeat emails from auto saved file, or only check once an hour for changes?

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Hello team,

I created a flow to check a specific file on sharepoint is modified by its creator only, and to post a message on a Teams channel. The challenge I am having is auto-save, its essentially spamming the channel every few minutes when the content isn't changing. Is there a way to only check the file maybe once an hour, and send 1 notification if it was modified in that past hour? Screen Shot 2019-11-05 at 8.14.25 AM.png

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Hi @opsengineer,

You can create a recurrence Flow runs every hours. Then Get File properties of the target, after that, create these conditions:

-Modified by is equal to Created by

-Modified is greater than addHours(UtcNow(),-1)

If it is true, post message into the channel.

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Community Support Team _ Lin Tu
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@v-litu-msft Thank you for the direction and the screenshots, those really help. I have created the flow and will test it out and see how it goes. If I am understanding correctly, every hour it will check if the file has been modified anytime within that hour by the "created by" user, and if so, trigger a notification?

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Hi @opsengineer,

Yes, that is what I mean.

Every hour, every time it will only send one notification (message to channel) if it was modified by the creator, please have a try it.

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Yes it works fantastic, thank you for the quick help! This solves a couple other issues I wanted to work on as well, thanks again for your time and reply.

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