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I have x2 SharePoint lists - one for in-flight requests and one for historical (archived) requests.

I'm trying to work out how to create a flow to essentially compare the two lists when an item is created on the in-flight list, and flag it as a duplicate.

Essentially, when a request is created and the item is loaded into the in-flight request list, a dupe check is triggered against the archive list to highlight if that record (e.g agreement number/unique reference etc) appears on the historical list too.

Apologies if this is already covered on another thread.

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Create a automated flow that is triggered when a sharepoint item is created,

add the "Get Items" SharePoint Action, link the "historical list"

in the add a filter Query, for this take what ever value(column) you want to search from the sharepoint item (agreement number/unique reference)..

Query could look like that

'agreement number Column Name' eq 'Get Items agreement number' and 'unique reference Column Name' eq 'Get Items unique reference'

then add a If condition: (if a item was found the body contains values, so there is a existing item)

on the left side Length(body of Get Items) | greater then | 0

on the yes side

Update Item action, linked to the created column ID and write duplicate in a column, or something like that..

that should sketch the whole process, you should be able to finde guidance in web for all steps

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Hi - Thanks this sorts the issue perfectly.

Is there a way to have the flow loop through to display all the duplicates?

e.g I can currently get the flow to update a column to display the duplicate its found, but if there a multiple duplicates in theory i'd want it to list them all.

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