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Flow is running to often -> false triggercondition?

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Hello everyone,
I have created a flow, which should only run, when the item has the values "Lost" or "Closed" in the States column of my sharepointlist. And when the flow starts it should make a timestamp in a column in my sharepointlist. This works but I have the following problem.
For my flow I am using this trigger: 

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and this is the Triggercondition of this Trigger: @Anonymous(equals(triggerOutputs()?['body/States/Value'], 'Lost'), equals(triggerOutputs()?['body/States/Value'], 'Closed'))

The problem now is, that the flow runs nearly every minute, altough I dont modifie anything on the items or create any. Beacuse of this, the timestamp is changing everyday. For example yesterday was the timestamp 11/22/23 but today it changed the timestamp to 11/23/23 beacuse it runs. 
What is the problem? 

Thanks for your help

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  • fchopo Profile Picture
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    Hi @User3048 

    As I understand, you want to trigger the workflow when status is Lost or Closed

    1) When Status is Lost/Closed ->Then Update timestamp.

    2) Workflow is triggered again because item was updated (timestamp) and Status is still Lost/Closed -> Update timestamp

    So you're in a recurring workflow... In order to avoid that, you should use conditions: Look at this excellent blog post by @tom_riha : How to avoid infinite trigger loop in Power Automate (tomriha.com)

    Hope it helps!

    Ferran

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