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Currently Power automate flow is updating the "modified by" value with owner of the flow if any SharePoint Update item is used, but it should update the initiator of the flow in the "modified by" column.
Please send any workaround solution
Hello hemanthrhk.
Does this question refer to Power Automate FLow execution through the Portal? I would recommend posting it in the related section as the current section refers to Power Automate Desktop specifically.
Thank you!
This sounds like more of a Power Automate question than a Power Automate Desktop Question. In Power Automate you are correct that the update runs in the context of the maker of the flow, not the person who caused the flow to trigger automatically. The only way to change that is to manually set the modified by user after the update using an HTTP request. This blog post walksthrough the process.
http://johnliu.net/blog/2019/2/flowninja-hack-78-modifying-modified-by-and-modified-time-with-microsoft-flow
Fantastic, Thanks for posting that solution!
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