November 29, 2024

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.
Experience
I’ll include all my experiences (good and bad) working with the triggers.
For everyone
I want people to use it and share it. So I won’t put any restriction on it on this reference.
By everyone
Please contribute! The better I can make it, the better it will be for everyone.
Lots of places
I learn from lots of places, so some things may be found elsewhere.

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

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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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” …
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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 …
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Power Automate: Office 365 Outlook – When a new email mentioning me arrives Trigger

I’ve mentioned this many times, but sorting email is where productivity dies, even if you have a quick way to do it. There’s nothing better …
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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 …
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OneDrive for Business

Power Automate: OneDrive for Business – For a selected file Trigger

Did you know you can trigger Flows for files directly in OneDrive for Business? Let’s say that you have a contract that you want to …
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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, …
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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, …
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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, …
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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, …
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Power Apps

Power Automate: Power Apps (V2) Trigger

Earlier in the life of this site, I wrote the reference to the “PowerApps” trigger and its capabilities. It served us well, but now we …
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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 …
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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, …
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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 …
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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 …
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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. …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Twitter

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 …
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