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Dynamic Flow Trigger Issue

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Posted on by kludger

Hi,

I've made a flow that successfully provisions sharepoint sites using site scripts/designs and now want to provision a trigger-based flow against these provisioned sites' document library, dynamically.

Is this possible via power automate? I've discovered that you can't build successive triggers into a flow, so is there any way to dynamically associate the provisioned site with the successive flow other than using 'when a http request is received'?

I need to run 'when a file is created or modified (properties only)' that requires a site URL and library name once the site has been created, but there's no obvious way to run this independently, yet still obtain the URL dynamically from the provisioning flow in power automate.

Thanks.

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DJ_Jamba 2,837 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi @kludger

Why don't you write to a list e.g. FlowTriggerList, then other flows can be triggered by the When an item is created action?

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kludger 9 on at

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@DJ_Jamba I need the 'when an item is created' trigger to work on the document library of the provisioned site. The problem is that the flow won't know the name of the site/library unless it is passed to it via some kind of trigger.

I think I have found a way of working around this via the following blog
Using PowerAutomate to deploy PowerAutomate (Flow deploying Flow)… Sounds like Inception? - Blog of an overweight SharePoint addict (myfatblog.co.uk)

however it is very expansive and quite old. I'm hoping there is a more up to date solution, or someone has a better idea.

Thanks.

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kludger 9 on at

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@AlexEncodian thanks for the response. After consideration, we are simply going to forgo the automation of this post-provision flow and manually create one per site as it will probably require more effort to design & test than to recreate flows from a functional export.

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