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When Keyword Phrases Are Mentioned In A Teams Channel

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Posted on by JPey

I have a list of keywords:

"Phone Rebooted","Phone Restarted","Phone Restarting","Phone Rebooting","Phone Restart","Phone Reboot","Phone starting resetting","Phone started resetting","Phone started to reset","Phone just reset","Phone just restarted","phone restarted","Phone is restarting","VPN Tunnel Failure", "phone randomly restarted"

I am needing to create a flow to a Teams Channel. I see what looks like an option to use a power automate keywords object to select a team channel. Looks simple enough, but I am getting an error that I cannot use phrases, only single words.

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In a Teams Channel, how do I use a automatic trigger to kick off a flow when one of the phrases I mentioned above is in a new conversation or a reply to an existing conversation?

Thanks in advance for any insights!

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Craig Stewart ABZ 959 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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You could split your phrases to single words for the trigger so

"Phone Rebooted","Phone Restarted","Phone Restarting","Phone Rebooting","Phone Restart","Phone Reboot"

would become

"Phone", "Rebooted","Pestarted","Restarting","Rebooting","Restart","Reboot"

Then use a condition to see if the actual phrases are mentioned by getting the message details first

For your conditions it's probably best to add toLower() around it and set all your contains to lower case

something like this:

toLower(outputs('Get_message_details')?['body/body/content'])

That way your keywords are not case sensitive, and because your conditions are you need to switch them.

Here I added PhOne ReStart in the chat which triggered the flow, without changing to lowercase it would fail the condition.

Hope that is useful.

Cheers

Craig

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JPey 70 on at

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That worked great! One additional thing to note for future readers, conditional evaluations are limited to 10, so if you have more than 10 you need to nest an additional condition under the no of the first condition to do an additional 10.

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Craig Stewart ABZ 959 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Hi JPey,

You don't need a nested condition - you can add your conditions as groups instead of rows that allows you to have 10 groups with 10 conditions which is a lot neater.

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Jannes 4 on at

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Hi, I think it would be great if we could provide a list of strings, where the strings can have spaces, special characters etc. It would make the use of this solution way less painful. Is this functionality expected some time? #featurerequest:)

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