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Flow Triggering Multiple Times for Flagged Emails_When an email is flagged_Create a task in planner

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Hello Power Automate Community,

 

I am currently experiencing an issue with my flow in Power Automate. The flow is designed to create a task in Planner when an email is flagged. Here is the setting of activity "when an email is flagged":

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However, I am encountering a problem where the flow is being triggered multiple times for a single flagged email, resulting in three identical tasks being created in Planner.

Here is how the flow is built:

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I am not sure why this behavior is occurring and would greatly appreciate any insights or suggestions from the community on how to resolve this issue.

 

thanks a lot,

 

Francesco 

  • SudeepGhatakNZ Profile Picture
    SudeepGhatakNZ 14,231 on at
    Re: Flow Triggering Multiple Times for Flagged Emails_When an email is flagged_Create a task in planner

    I'll test it at my end 

  • LaFrancescaF Profile Picture
    LaFrancescaF 4 on at
    Re: Flow Triggering Multiple Times for Flagged Emails_When an email is flagged_Create a task in planner

    Ciaooo,

    Hope all good.

    I have tried to insert the activities as you suggested. In this case the robot is working when i flag for the second time the same email. But it still creates two planner tasks the first time that the email is flagged: 

    LaFrancescaF_0-1720602213884.png

    I really don't get it. I inserted the activities you've suggested immediately after the trigger, in order to avoid performing actions if the flow should stop immediately due to duplicates.

     

    thanks,

     

    Francesco 

     

  • SudeepGhatakNZ Profile Picture
    SudeepGhatakNZ 14,231 on at
    Re: Flow Triggering Multiple Times for Flagged Emails_When an email is flagged_Create a task in planner

    @LaFrancescaF 

    I wouldn't know what would trigger the flow multiple times, but you can add a condition before Create task to check if a task with that name already exists.

    You can use a combination of List tasks and a filter.

    SudeepGhatakNZ_0-1720137247812.png

     

     

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