[Help Needed] Preventing a flow from running again and again once a condition has been satisfied

[Anonymous]

Hi all,

Situation: I've created a flow where when an item is created or modified on a SharePoint list, it'll run a condition checking whether two fields within the SharePoint list are a certain value and if "true", will copy a few files into a specified folder and also create a task in MS Planner.

Problem: This works great when the condition is initially satisfied -- but if someone goes into the SharePoint list to make an update, it will trigger the flow again and I end up having duplicate files and duplicate tasks in Planner. 

Question: Is there anything I can do to stop it when condition is initially satisfied -- I was researching and saw some folks trying to accomplish this through some complex versioning functions/flows -- but is that the only way to do it?

[Brad_Groux]

You could add a second, time-based condition utilizing a time-based expression to your Flow. So if the modified date/time are later than the created date/time, then your first field-based condition does not run again. 

• DateAdd, DateDiff, and TimeZoneOffset functions in PowerApps
• Working with Dates and Times inside of your flows
• Formatting Date And time in MS Flow
• Custom date and time format strings
• Use expressions in flow actions

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