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I am using Microsoft flow for approval.

Flow triggers on item creation or modification.

Now i created an item and ite goes for approval. Now once approved or rejected . I am updating comments in a SharePoint List field (same item on which flow is running). Now if i update approval comments from Flow in the item using update item action . it again trigger a flow on that item. Which leads to n number of flow instances being triggered from just 1 item.

Since already one instance is running, ideally it should not trigger any other instance.

Anyone facing similar issue ? Is it a bug or intendend behaviour which can be controlled ?

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Hi manjotsingh057,

Trigger “When an item is created or modified” will trigger a flow whenever an item is created or modified. So when flow updates the comments field in the list, it will be considered as a modification and it will then trigger the flow.

If the trigger “When an item is created” meet your scenario, please consider using this trigger, then the flow won’t be triggered when flow updates the comments filed in the list.

You may also try to add a Condition in the flow to check if the comment field is empty or not, if it is empty, do other actions, if it is not empty, do nothing.

In advanced mode, please add the following function in the Condition:
@empty(triggerBody()?['Comments'])

Then if the comments field has value in it, though the flow will be triggered, the following actions won’t be executed. While if the comments field doesn’t have a value, the flow will be triggered and the following action will be executed.

Please take this flow configuration for a reference:

Best regards,
Mabel Mao

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manjotsingh057 164 on at

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Thanks Mabel,

Surprised to hear that

A bit different scenerion here.

I have to update a unique number for the new entry which i am doing before approval.

Also i have couple of more approvals that are required to go serially. So i have to add couple of more request a approval actions and i will be updating item after every action.

May be i ll have to make a different logic here then.

if i terminate a flow using terminate action ? Does that count into number of error instances report that i get weekyl over email ??

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Hi,
I have created a flow to save attachments from email into SP List.
However, each time the flow is triggered it fails, every new email creates a new item in SharePoint list but attachments do not appear with that record into SP List.

I am not sure whats going wrong, can someone please help me and guide how can i resolve this issue and get flow working so as i can get attachments into SP List iteam record created with each new email received pls.

below is a screenshot:

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