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LenC
Helper V
Helper V

Your flow was modified by someone else

This morning, evey time I save a Flow, Power Automate says "Your flow was modified by someone else." I am the only one editing this flow. It is a flow contained in a solution.

 

Anyone else seeing this?

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philcatterall
Advocate I
Advocate I

Yes, seeing same issue since a couple of days ago. Guessing it's an undocumented feature in a new version of the flow editor....

LenC
Helper V
Helper V

This is still happening for me.

Yep and me. Hopefully an MS moderator will pick it up. If not it’s a tech support case. Can’t do that myself right now. I expect they will sort it soon-ish !!

Anonymous
Not applicable

I'm seeing this as well, only on the child flow in a solution. The parent flow seems to save correctly.

Mark23
New Member

I've been seeing this repeatedly across several flows.  I'm editing within the context of a solution, not sure if that makes a difference.  It happens every time I save, such as to test a change in a flow.  It seems to break the flow of "Save & Test"...I get the dialog, say overwrite, then it just stops waiting for you to click Test.  For the record, it's just me and one browser when I'm editing, so not sure where the "someone else" is coming from.  I've also noticed that even though I do save and test, I've caught a number of instances where the executed flow is not what was in the editor.  Click edit and it's back to the new one, but run it and clearly it's using an older version for the test.  Would like to know if it's possible to workaround this if anyone figures it out.

carlilelance
Advocate V
Advocate V

I'm experiencing this too. My guess is it is because I have unsaved changes in another instance of the same flow in Power Automate that I left open on my computer at work. It probably uses IP to determine if "another user" is working on something. I'll test this once I get back to the office. Edit: it wasn't this. I experience this even if I'm sure I only have one instance open on one IP. 

 

If you select the second option, "save a copy of your changes", then it will create a copy of your flow. Once you open the copy, you won't have the message anymore. Unfortunately, the copy doesn't automatically get put in the same solution :(. 

David_MA
Super User
Super User

Are you the only owner of the flow? If so, then this is definitely weird. If there are other owners, are you positive none of them made any changes while you were also working on it? If so, I would try clearing your browser cache.

 

If one of the other owners of my flows changes something, I usually get an e-mail with this message:

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Unrelated to this, images in e-mails have been coming through hit and miss as you can see above. I don't know if this is related to the problems Microsoft was having with Outlook this week: Microsoft Outlook back up for most users after outage (msn.com).

jasonhuebner
Regular Visitor

I started experiencing this same bahvior yesterday.  Since I know I'm the only person editing the Flow, and the only Owner, I kept using the overwrite option, exiting the Flow, re-editing, and everything looked to be saved correctly.  Flow ran successfully end of day yesterday, setting numerous Dataverse values.  When I went in to add new steps today, a variable warning popped up and I noticed every variable/expression added over the past few days is gone from my Dataverse "Update a row" step.  Anyone ever get any additional insight into what is going on and if anything can be done to eliminate this behavior?

spmofulton
Helper II
Helper II

@LenC , @Mark23 , @jasonhuebner , @carlilelance , @David_MA 

So I have a theory.

Are any of you familar with Managed Instance Admin Users in Microsoft Enterprise or Sharepoint Excel? 
If your familar with the google cloud this are called service accounts or accounts with either a password or passwordless that are designed solely to integrate one service with another service.   They are generally protected behind the firewall. 

So since migrating One Drive Business/Sharepoint excel a sister organization to my own has noticed weird behavior in excel with some documents sometimes behave as if they were edited by another user or put in read only mode.   They noticed the behavior occurs every time the service account gets around to making a backup of a users sharedrive files. 

My theory:  I am wondering somewhere in the set up for how you all are using power automate there could be a backup service or autosave service that is misfiring--so to speak. 

Either way maybe sharing our set ups to see differences might help? 


KoenJanssensPD
Continued Contributor
Continued Contributor

I also experience the same in an environment in which I am the only user... any solution yet?

philcatterall
Advocate I
Advocate I

@KoenJanssensPD , no. MS have released a new version of the Flow editor - quite nice, with a better edit box for functions, but I'm still getting this "Modified elsewhere" message. Not perhaps as often, but its still there.

vwysun
Frequent Visitor

This also happened to me in mid-May for flows that have been added to a solution.

 

There is another issue which started in April.  Whenever I click 'Edit', the flow will be autosaved before I make any changes.  The 'Modified' timestamp also got updated.  There was one Monday May 8 when some of my flows were 'modified' during the weekend when my computer was turned off and I am the only owner of the flows.  This behaviour stopped in Mid-May and came back at the end of May.

Any help will be appreciated!

 

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pp_dev
Helper II
Helper II

I am facing the same issue, and this is driving me crazy. . This is so irritating and pathetic. Every time i open my flow in edit mode this stupid platform first started saving it as mentioned by @vwysun 

melanietully
Frequent Visitor

I am seeing this too. 
 I had added other owners so I ended up removing them but the issue still persists. Good to know I am not the only one seeing this as it was driving me mad trying to work out what’s happening !

pp_dev
Helper II
Helper II

With this issue and many more, it is a total waste of time to work on this platform.

mcolbert1
New Member

This started just this afternoon. Working on flows this morning worked fine. Is there no resolution? I'm totally blocked.

IhnoHanuschka
Advocate I
Advocate I

Same problem here... has anybody logged this as a MS incident already and can give updates? Best regards, Ihno

philcatterall
Advocate I
Advocate I

Noticed something today. When editing a Flow from a solution, click Edit in New Tab - get the issue.
Click Details in New Tab, then Edit. No issue.
For sure its an MS bug - they will get to it (eventually 🙂 )

Well I think that comment is a) rather dramatic and b) adds zero value to this thread or forum.
If you have opinions good or bad, I'm sure there are plenty of places you can air them, but please not here. This forum's purpose is for people to help each other - not berate the product or offer opinions on it.

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