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RSS "when a feed item is published" - stop duplicate entries

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Posted on by webbrewer

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Flow is triggered by "when a feed item is published", and creates a news link in a SP site pages library. It works but duplicates items added to the feed maybe due to the article being updated. Even if the title field in site pages is set to "unique", it still creates the duplicates (but checked out so they don't display in a news web part).

To block the duplicates, I created a 2nd flow triggered by items being added to site pages which changes a yes/no field to yes, so I can use a condition in the first flow to prevent a news link being created if the field = yes. I get "success" messages but the news links aren't being created because :ActionBranchingConditionNotSatisfied. The execution of template action 'Send_an_HTTP_request_to_SharePoint' skipped: the branching condition for this action is not satisfied." I obviously have the logic and /or the sequence wrong, but can't wrap my head around why.

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krootz 458 on at

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@webbrewer shouldn't you be checking if the Feed Title already exist instead? if it is, update it, if not, create it.
You can set a Filter query on get items Title eq 'rssFeedTitle' then check if you get a record or not.

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webbrewer 338 on at

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Thanks! When I add the filter query Title eq 'rssFeedTitle', the flow stops at the get items stage. Could you explain more "check if you get a record or not."? Would that still be a condition comparing title to rss feed title? How else would I get the flow to create a new item if the title doesn't already exist?

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webbrewer 338 on at

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By the way, it doesn't make any sense that we have to filter this in the flow - the "when a feed item is published" action should already ONLY be sending newly published items, NOT updated items since the updates are usually in the content, not the link. That's the way every other rss feed reader works, so this is a Msft design flaw.

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