Trigger is triggered by wrong item modification

[NAtzinger]

I have a flow that gets triggered when an item is modified in a sharepoint list but every time i modify something the trigger detects a modification on a completely wrong item and gets stuck in a loop.

If you look at the screenshot i posted with this you can see the middle one which is the one the flow detects as modified even though i modified the item on the right.

How can i tell the trigger that it should check the right item for changes?

[Anchov]

@NAtzinger, to achieve this, you'll need to use a trigger condition to filter the create/modify event based on the specific column and value that should trigger your workflow. Here are some resources/examples that might help:

• Power Automate Trigger Conditions made EASY
• Citizen Development Academy - Power Automate Trigger Conditions
• SPGuides - Power Automate Trigger Conditions

Once the flow is triggered, perform your desired actions, and make sure to update the SharePoint item so the configured trigger condition will not be met, and prevent your  flow met from going into an endless loop.

For example, lets say your have column called TriggerWorkflow thats a true \ false data type.  You only want to trigger the workflow when TriggerWorkflow is set to true, so you set a trigger condition on your trigger to:

@equals(outputs('Get_item')?['body/TriggerWorkflow'], true)

Then your workflow runs, and as a last step, you update the list item to set the TriggerWorflow column to false.  

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[SudeepGhatakNZ]

@NAtzinger ,

That is highly unusual. Could there possibly be an oversight in your observation?

Note that the modification of an item doesn't immediately initiate the flow. Is it plausible that the modification of two items led to the triggering of the flow twice, whereas you only perceived the initial occurrence?