When An Item Or File Is Modified Trigger For SharePoint Connector

Introduction

 
If you are regular in creating Power Automate flows using SharePoint triggers, you are quite familiar with triggers such as “When an item is created” or “When an item is created or modified” and so on. But you see, it had been a great deal for many where the trigger “When an item or file is modified” was missing in Power Automate before August 2020 release.
 
In this blog, you can see how we can make use of this new trigger and use it in our business application requirements.
 

Overview 

  • Weekly Status SharePoint List
  • Automated Power Automate Flow to demonstrate the new trigger functionality
Create a SharePoint List named Weekly Status with following list fields,
 
When An Item Or File Is Modified Trigger For SharePoint Connector
 
Important Note
You have to enable versioning for the above list created for the flow to work
 
Follow the below steps to create the flow,
 
Step 1
 
Select Automated from blank,
 
When An Item Or File Is Modified Trigger For SharePoint Connector
 
Step 2
 
Give a name to the flow and click on create:
 
When An Item Or File Is Modified Trigger For SharePoint Connector
 
Step 3
 
Configure the actions as shown in the below screenshot
 
When An Item Or File Is Modified Trigger For SharePoint Connector
 
Step 4
 
Configure the true condition with a Send email action as shown below,
 
When An Item Or File Is Modified Trigger For SharePoint Connector
 
Step 5
 
Change the status field in a SharePoint list item as shown below to test the flow,
 
When An Item Or File Is Modified Trigger For SharePoint Connector
 
Step 6
 
Once status field is modified the desired email is sent as shown below
 
When An Item Or File Is Modified Trigger For SharePoint Connector
 
Happy Learning!