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Build Flow beyond 30 days with Reza Dorrani's tutorial using trigger"When an item is created or modified"

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Hi, I've made this flow, The problem is when it's run and there's some update item in SP list then the flow trigger more flow simultaneously

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Kitaxay 20 on at

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Hi, Any idea to avoid this one keep create new flow?

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v-wenjuan-msft Microsoft Employee on at

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Hi @Kitaxay ,

I check your snaps of your flow. Do you mean when you create a new item in the list, the flow will be triggered and update item in the same list. So that when the update happens, the flow will be triggered again. Thus, one creation leads to endless running of the flow.

If so, advice is to limit the trigger only be fired when a new item got created in the list, which means when you do manually/automatically update work to the list items, the flow will not run.

@equals(triggerBody()?['Created'], triggerBody()?['Modified'])

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Kitaxay 20 on at

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Hi, Thanks for your suggestions, I've tested and let it timeout but it's not restart the flow.
Column'StartWF' changed to YES

@Anonymous(equals(triggerBody()?['StartWF'],'No'))

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v-wenjuan-msft Microsoft Employee on at

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Hi @Kitaxay ,

May I know what's the condition do you want to set to the trigger?
Only when Column 'StartWF' modified to YES, rather than create a new item?

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Kitaxay 20 on at

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Yes Sir, there will be both new items created and when Column 'StartWF' modified to YES, then start flow again from the beginning and catch the status for condition to switch case.

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Kitaxay 20 on at

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For more details:
-When first case approved "StartWF" change to YES(mean start over again)
-Case"Status" changed to next approver case
-then loop until finish all case
Note: incase timeout 29days flow start from beginning with same status on current approver.

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v-wenjuan-msft Microsoft Employee on at

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Hi @Kitaxay ,

Thanks for your further explanation and hope I understand it correctly this time... So you would like to start the flow when you create a new item to the list and restart a new run when "update item" change "StartWF" to YES, am I right?

If so, to avoid endless start over and to ensure the flow runs as expect, advice is to separate the two ways of trigger into two flows. One will be triggered when a new item is created and another will start when "StartWF" to YES.

You can sustain the origin flow with trigger condition set to my previous suggestion.
For the "modified" trigger, refer to below screenshot:

@not(equals(triggerBody()?['Created'], triggerBody()?['Modified'])) sub(int(triggerOutputs()?['body/{VersionNumber}']),1)

The settings will only start this flow when modification was made to items, then it will contrast current list with last version of list to check whether target column got changed. If yes, the flow continues. If not, like the modification happens to other columns, the flow will ends.

Hope this helps~

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Kitaxay 20 on at

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Hi V,
I think separate flow is can solve. What if modified flow i want to make condition only run if column StartWF=Yes.
Stop run if StartWF=No.

I have 3 approver step on the Status.

Thanks

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Kitaxay 20 on at

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Hi V,
In each switch case i have condition to start flow both Approved and timeout.
This base on StartWF=Yes

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v-wenjuan-msft Microsoft Employee on at

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Hi @Kitaxay ,

Please refer to my yesterday's reply for solution. I have attached screenshots of steps to set a flow only run when StartWF column got modified. Next, you can put a condition there to tell whether StartWF=Yes.

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