Infinite Loop

[RoboPaul]

Hello all - I've been working to get this flow working for days now, and to no avail. What I want to do is super simple - just add 5 numbers together on a form! That's it! If it's new or modified, just update to the RSF Property Total field. I have 5 fields - RSF, RSF2, RSF3, RSF4, RSF5. What am I doing wrong?

[creativeopinion]

@RoboPaul The reason your flow is stuck in an infinite loop is because your flow ends with Updating the same Item that triggered your flow to begin with. You will need to use a Trigger Condition or a Service account (or a combination of both) to prevent your flow from re-triggering itself. 

I cover this concept along with a couple others in this YT Tutorial:

♾️ ♾️ Fix Infinite Loops ♾️ ♾️ | 3 Ways to Avoid an Infinite Loop in Power Automate

In this Power Automate Tutorial I’m going to show you 3 ways to avoid an infinite loop. Keep in mind that there are more ways to avoid the infinite loop than what I’ll cover in this tutorial—choose the solution that works best for you.

IN THIS VIDEO:

✅ Understanding What Causes Infinite Loops

✅ Avoiding Infinite Loops with the Recurrence Trigger

✅ Filtering to Return Files Only in Power Automate

✅ How to Output a Total Count in Power Automate with the length() function

✅ Using Trigger Conditions to Prevent Flow Re-triggering

✅ Leveraging Service Accounts to Avoid Infinite Loops

You might also be interested in this YT Tutorial:

4 Ways You Can Use Trigger Conditions in Your Microsoft Power Automate Flow

If you are using an Automated Cloud flow trigger in your flow—you need to consider adding trigger conditions.

Do YOU 🫵 know what a trigger condition is? Trigger conditions can be set in most flow triggers. These conditions you set must be true for the trigger to fire. In this Power Automate tutorial, I’m going to show you how to use trigger conditions in your flows to control when your Power Automate flows trigger.

If your plan has flow run limits—you can avoid triggering your flows unnecessarily by using trigger conditions.

I’ll cover four different flow examples that would benefit from trigger conditions:

⚡️ Triggering a flow when a column is changed to a specific value

⚡️ Triggering a Flow When an Event Updated or Deleted

⚡️ Triggering a Flow When a New Folder is Created

⚡️ Triggering a Flow When a Specific Email is Received I’ll also show you a trick on how to easily create the expressions needed and give you a few tips on how to troubleshoot your flow.

IN THIS VIDEO:

✅ Four different flows that would benefit from trigger conditions

✅ What is a trigger condition?

✅ How to add a trigger condition to your flow

✅ How to trigger a flow when a column is changed to a specific value

✅ How to trigger a flow when an event is updated or Deleted

✅ How to trigger a flow when a new folder is created

✅ How to trigger a flow when a specific email is received

✅ How to troubleshoot a trigger condition

✅ How to prevent case sensitivity issues with a trigger condition

✅ How to use the filter array action to easily compose an expression that can be used in a trigger condition

Hope this helps!

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[RoboPaul]

I've watched your video and its still not working. What do I change? I need help here please.

[RoboPaul]

Could I hire directly for some contract help? My email is paul.coonrod@pagewood.com and phone number is 713-377-3198. I need some help on this and couple of other things.