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APZee
Nov 08, 2022Copper Contributor
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Hello... I have just joined this community to seek some assistance. (Sorry I am not able to upload images for reason, so I apologize in advance for the wordy message). I am having problems wi...
- Nov 11, 2022
APZee - This behavior is unfortunately by design and working as expected per Microsoft. See here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/disable-flow. What we've recommended to users is before turning the flow back on, add a terminate step right after the trigger. This will still run the flow, but quickly clear the queued events. Best of luck!
jefmeyer
Nov 11, 2022Iron Contributor
APZee - This behavior is unfortunately by design and working as expected per Microsoft. See here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/disable-flow. What we've recommended to users is before turning the flow back on, add a terminate step right after the trigger. This will still run the flow, but quickly clear the queued events. Best of luck!
- APZeeNov 14, 2022Copper ContributorThank you for the feedback. I can confirm I had the same information provided by our MS Partner also. The workaround or solution I have implemented to avoid this is to add one additional column in the list, "DataImported" with a default value set as No (For new items being created) and set the previously uploaded data as DataImported=Yes. Then simply added a condition to Terminate any item that is flagged as DataImported=Yes. So, the workflow is only really running when new items are added, and the existing data is skipped.