Continue being triggered: Get notified when Onedrive files are modified

[LJP]

Hello,

I built a flow to get notified when my documents in Onedrive are changed. It worked well until yesterday.

But after one modification of my teammate, it continues being triggered for last 12 hours and sending me notifications every minnute.
Does anyone know why it get triggered so many times? How can I stop it?

[creativeopinion]

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[LJP]

Here is my whole flow. I added one condition to stop it sending me notifications when the 

@{triggerOutputs()?['body/LastModified']} is not in last five minutes.

This stopped notifications while the flow itself is still being triggered now.

[creativeopinion · Accepted solution]

@LJP Is there a specific file type you'd like to be notified when modified? Or do you want to be notified whenever a file is modified. If a file is opened up via the web apps there is an auto-save feature that is integrated with Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. 

The auto-save feature is designed to save changes almost instantly as they are made. The save interval is pretty short—within seconds after a change is detected. This means that as you type or make changes in a document, spreadsheet, or presentation, those changes are automatically saved to the cloud, ensuring that your work is up-to-date and minimizing the risk of losing significant progress.

I would recommend adding Trigger Conditions to your flow trigger to evaluate the file that is being modified before your flow runs. This will prevent any unnecessary flow runs.

Alternatively, you could run a scheduled flow to check your files every hour to see which ones have been modified recently.

Hope this helps!

[LJP]

Thank you very much for your reply.

There are two Excel files in that folder and I'd like to get notification of modifications to both of them.

The problem was that the flow had been triggered by one modification for hundreds of times during that night. I belive my teammates didn't even open it at midnight. So, perhaps there might be something wrong with OneDrive's API.

I will take your advice and add trigger conditions when I come up with a proper expression. Now, I have to turn it off for a while.
Thanks again!