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Suppress subsequent flows for a week

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Dear Community,

I have a Flow that is triggered on a third party condition (in this case a PowerBI alert). I would like to run the flow as soon as this condition is triggered, but ignore all subsequent triggers for let's say a week.

I played around with the utcnow() variable, but I miss the ability to either persist or query the last successful runtime to make the decision to further process the flow.

Any help is highly appreciated.

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abm abm 32,985 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @AlexanderSch

Once the flow is triggered you can't go back and check when did the last time flow is triggered. What you need to do is store the last run DateTime in an Excel sheet or a database. Then check every time when the flow is triggered and decide whether you want to terminate the flow or continue.

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@abm thanks I already thought about such solution, but I hoped for a leaner one. Thank you!

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Hi @AlexanderSch

Have a look at this. There is an API for this.

Solved: Link to Cloud Flow Run History - Power Platform Community (microsoft.com)

I haven't personally looked into this but this may be another option.

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