An ever-growing Power Automate Trigger Reference
My way of explaining each trigger with as much detail as I can. You’ll find suggestions, best practices, things to avoid, and limitations.
Here are the sections where you can find articles. There are more in Microsoft’s reference, but I only include the ones I wrote about in the past.
- Microsoft Forms (2)
- Microsoft Planner (3)
- Microsoft Teams (1)
- Office 365 Excel (1)
- Office 365 Outlook (2)
- OneDrive for Business (4)
- Power Apps (1)
- Power Automate (4)
- SharePoint (9)
- Twitter (1)
Microsoft Forms
Power Automate: Forms – When a new response is submitted Trigger
Microsoft Forms is a great way to collect user information, but it’s not a great place to keep information. It would be best to keep …Full Reference
Power Automate: SharePoint – When an item is deleted Trigger
SharePoint’s lists are excellent for keeping data, but one accidental delete could generate a lot of headaches, especially if you don’t notice it. That’s why …Full Reference
Microsoft Planner
Power Automate: Planner – When a new task is created Trigger
In my opinion, the Planner “when a new task is created” trigger is one of the most useful Planner triggers. Tasks are created frequently, and …Full Reference
Power Automate: Planner – When a task is assigned to me Trigger
The “When a task is assigned to me” trigger does something that most don’t. It reacts to changes in all Planner Plans and not only …Full Reference
Power Automate: Planner – When a task is completed Trigger
Power Automate reacts perfectly when things change in Microsoft Planner. For example, we have a trigger that fires “When a task is completed”, which can …Full Reference
Microsoft Teams
Power Automate: Teams – When a new channel message is added Trigger
Microsoft Teams is the tool today for interaction with co-workers, but it can be overwhelming when the channels are popular, and people are active. So …Full Reference
Office 365 Excel
Power Automate: Office 365 Excel – For a selected row Trigger
The “For a selected row” trigger is incredibly useful., especially for those who use Excel to store data. It takes advantage of Power Automate’s “add-in” …Full Reference
Office 365 Outlook
Power Automate: Office 365 Outlook – When a new email arrives Trigger
Sorting email manually is where productivity goes to die. But, even if you have a quick way to do it, nothing beats automatic, so Power …Full Reference
Power Automate: Office 365 Outlook – When an email is flagged Trigger
Flags are a great way to organize emails, but we can do a lot more to get our email under control. For example, archiving to …Full Reference
OneDrive for Business
Power Automate: OneDrive for Business – When a file is created (properties only) Trigger
It’s pretty impossible to track manually when a file is created in a folder or list of folders. Even if you have a good strategy, …Full Reference
Power Automate: OneDrive for Business – When a file is created Trigger
It’s pretty impossible to track manually when a file is created in a folder or list of folders. Even if you have a good strategy, …Full Reference
Power Automate: OneDrive for Business – When a file is modified (properties only) Trigger
It’s pretty impossible to track manually when a file is created in a folder or list of folders. Even if you have a good strategy, …Full Reference
Power Automate: OneDrive for Business – When a file is modified Trigger
It’s pretty impossible to track manually when a file is changed in a folder or list of folders. Even if you have a good strategy, …Full Reference
Power Apps
Power Automate: PowerApps Trigger
The integrations between Power Automate and Power Apps are exceptional, and you can easily trigger Flows from Power Apps. You can even provide information from …Full Reference
Power Automate
Power Automate: Manually Trigger a Flow Trigger
The “Manually Trigger a Flow” action is, without question, one of my most used triggers ever. Although it’s super valuable to have Flows triggering automatically, …Full Reference
Power Automate: Recurrence Trigger
Having Flows that do everything for us without us even having to trigger them is fantastic. The “Recurrence” trigger does precisely this for us. It …Full Reference
Power Automate: When a feed item is published Trigger
RSS was pronounced dead so many times that I lost count, but it’s still around and healthy. RSS provides us with a fantastic opportunity for …Full Reference
Power Automate: When an HTTP request is received Trigger
Today a premium connector. The “When an HTTP request is received” trigger is special because it enables us to have Power Automate as a service. …Full Reference
SharePoint
Power Automate: SharePoint – For a selected file Trigger
Did you know you can trigger Flows for files directly in SharePoint? Let’s say that you have a contract that you want to send for …Full Reference
Power Automate: SharePoint – For a selected item Trigger
Did you know you can trigger Power Automate for items directly in SharePoint? Let’s say you have a list of employees and want to trigger …Full Reference
Power Automate: SharePoint – When a file is created (properties only) Trigger
The “When a file is created (properties only)” trigger is an excellent way to control files by automating the actions that deal with them. Today …Full Reference
Power Automate: SharePoint – When a file is created in a folder Trigger
Automating file management is an excellent way to save time, especially if you have many. There are many advantages to knowing when a file is …Full Reference
Power Automate: SharePoint – When a file is created or modified (properties only) Trigger
Let’s face it. Large libraries can’t know when a file changes, so automation here is necessary and the only way to do it. With the …Full Reference
Power Automate: SharePoint – When a file is deleted Trigger
We delete files manually or manually, so it’s hard to keep track of “when” and “by whom”. Power Automate helps with the “When a file …Full Reference
Power Automate: SharePoint – When an item is created or modified Trigger
SharePoint list items change a lot, and it’s handy to know when they do. So today, we’ll check the “When an item is created or …Full Reference
Power Automate: SharePoint – When an item is created Trigger
I’ve already covered the “When an item is created or modified” trigger, but today, I wanted to cover its small brother, the “When an item …Full Reference
Power Automate: SharePoint – When an item or a file is modified Trigger
I have to admit that this is a strange trigger because it mixes items and files, and it doesn’t have a “when created” counterpart. It …Full Reference
Power Automate: Twitter – When a new tweet is posted Trigger
Everyone has a love-hate relationship with Twitter, but there’s something we can’t deny. Twitter plays a massive role in everyone’s lives, especially when running a …Full Reference