FlowBites: Does It Exist? (Part 1) - Filter Array Method

In this video, I am walking through how you can determine if something exists within a SharePoint list. The exact same technique can be used for a much largely range of connectors.

Quite often, we see questions within the community related to "I only want to create a list item if it doesn't already exist". If it doesn't exist, then I can create an item, if it does exist then I can do something else e.g. an update. Within Part 1 of this two-part episode, we'll look at how we can use the Filter Array action to achieve our goal.

This method is particularly useful for carrying out more complex checks e.g. if I want to look for something that contains a value, rather than a straight is equal to. Whilst this is a useful technique, I'm not a huge fan of doing my checks this way as I don't like the extra step in my Flow. You'll see my preferred method in Part 2. For now, I hope you find this useful.

What is FlowBites?

FlowBites is a series of small, bite-size help videos designed to help you with your day-to-day Flow problems, and to give you some ideas of how you could implement Flows to help you and your users. If you have any feedback, suggestions, or requests, please post here and I will do my best to make it happen.