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Phineas
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'No' Condition Creates Item in SP List

I am practicing Flow. I created the below.

1. There is an Excel workbook in an SP Library.
2. If the workbook is updated the Flow updates the SP List.
3. The update is based upon a 'Yes/No' condition.
4. The 'Yes' side updates the existing data
5. The 'No' side should create a new item

The 'Yes' side works fine. The 'No' side is mass-producing the existing data from the workbook over and over again. I have to turn it off to stop the process.

How do I edit the 'No' side to ONLY create the new items entered into the workbook and then stop? 

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Got the following to work.

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tom_riha
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Hello @Phineas ,

having 'Apply to each' inside another 'Apply to each' means that it'll process all the Excels rows, and for each of them it'll process all the SharePoint items. If there're 10 Excel rows and 10 SharePoint items then it'll run 10*10 times, while the values will be equal only in max. 10 situations.

Remove one of the loops and use 'Filter array' instead, the principle is the same as described here: https://tomriha.com/how-to-compare-items-in-two-sharepoint-lists-in-power-automate/

Check if the 'Filter array' returns any items, if it does, it's equal to the Excel row. If it returns an empty array then there's no matching row/item.



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I'm still struggling.

I reviewed the link you sent. I thought I followed all the recommendations.

Still getting multiple new items and copies of old when I use the 'Create item'. To clarify to there is no match to the SP List ID in the Excel, so for testing purposes I'm using the 'Plan' column in both. All items have a unique 'Plan' name for matching purposes.

My last edit and run created hundreds of repeats that I had to delete.

Can you tell me whether you think this will achieve my goal as configured?

Facts:
1. There is a SP List
2. There is an Excel workbook (archived in a SP Library)
3. The workbook is updated with a new version once per week
4. I am using a 'When an item or file is modified' automated flow

Desired Outcome:
1. The upload of a new workbook (of the same name) shall trigger the flow
2. The flow shall filter for the contents of the 'Plan' column in the workbook
3. Where the 'Plan' column of the workbook and SP List match any edits to those items in the workbook will be
    reflected in the SP List
4. Where the 'Plan' is not found in the 'Plan' column of the SP List the flow will write the content of that/those items
    to the SP List.

If I only have one item in the SP List and I only use the 'Yes' side of the flow the update to the one item works. Once there is more than one item in SP the 'ID' parameter - variable kicks in; A variable that doesn't exist in the Excel workbook.

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tom_riha
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Hello @Phineas ,

you still have 2x 'Apply to each' in the flow, that's why it's creating so many items

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Okay; Something about the way I was creating the flow kept adding the extra 'Apply to'. That part has been adjusted.

I believe my 'Condition' entries are wrong.

What exactly am I'm entering in each condition and how so that I shows the body as you have it in the condition and the 'Update item'?

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tom_riha
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All the 3 values I added using the red text must be added as expressions.

Condition left side (is the output of 'Filter array' empty?):

empty(body('Filter_array'))

Condition right side (If it's not empty, the item exists, it'll be equal to 'false'):

false

Take the ID from the item that's left in the 'Filter array' output as that's the one you were looking for and which you want to use in the 'Update item' action.

body('Filter_array')[0]?['Id']

 



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Getting closer.

The SP List and Excel Workbook started with the top three lines/items.

I edited one column in each of the lines/items.

The flow ran and updated the items as desired, but it also made two more copies of those same lines.

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I'm still looking to finish this flow, please.

tom_riha
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Hello @Phineas ,

if it's creating items instead of updating then there must be something wrong with the 'Filter array' action or with the 'Condition'. Go to the flow run history and check what happened in the flow.

- how many loops did run?

- what was the result of the 'Filter array', was it always just a single item?

- is the 'Condition' written correctly?



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Got the following to work.

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abhacshah
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Can you please show your exact condition

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