Power Automate: How To Create Trigger Condition

If you are using a condition in Power Automate, you likely only want the flow to run when that condition is set to true. What if you could save flow runs and API calls by setting a condition for the flow to not even trigger if that condition was true? The perfect solution: Trigger Conditions.

Watch how Jonathon uses the Filter Array action to create the condition that can easily be copied and pasted into the trigger. Notice how easy it is to use this best practice!

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[joeschmoe]

Dude that filter array trick made my day, what a life saver! Thank you so much!

[powertothepeople]

What a cool trick for basically writing the filter condition for you using the Filter Array step! Will definitely be using this a lot... thanks!

[PeterBaumeister-be]

Thank you Jonathon, thanks Pragmatic Works, you made my day!

[davidwebster]

10:00 - I got this down thanks to you with the "Filter Array" but after the email you may want to update columns with new info. Once I do this then I still get an infinite loop warning. Any suggestions?

[ClaudiaGuzman-hznr]

Hi this was a very nice trick! How about when the action is moving the item being changed? So instead of sending the email I´m moving the item with a change in the array. But the "move file" action goes back asking which folder to move... Thanks for the help!

[diparnaadhikary]

How can i do the same for scheduled flows? So that they run on a specific date?
Will formateDateTime work for Trigger?

[RD-gpmu]

Ok this helps, thank you but what if each condition ( I have 30) has to update a row in 'separate' spreadsheet. Would I need at least 15 different flows?

[alexmarch]

what if you wanted to develop a trigger condition if a cell is any value rather than "high" or "low"

[AviationPilot]

What about if you updated an item to high when it was initially low? That's the problem im having.