Ignore unchanged fields
Professional integration tools like Scribe or SSIS/Kingswaysoft offer the possibility to ignore unchanged fields on update of a record:This helps to keep the audit history clean, so that only "real" updates are shown and not subsequent updates of the same field with the same value. It also reduces the unnecessary triggering of automations, e.g. flows, workflows, plugins that listen to these fields, altough their content hasn't "really" be changed.
Power Automate - CDS / Update a record
In Power Automate you can update a CRM record via the Common Data Service or Common Data Service Connector. But unfortunately these connectors currently do not offer the option to ignore unchanged fields:
Which results in unnecessary updates, if your flow updates your record based on another record:
Messing up your audit history like:
Power Automate Idea
To stay in a low code / now code approach, it would be great to add the "ignore unchanged fields" option to the "Update a record" action of the Common Data Service and Common Data Service (current environment) connector.
If you would like to see this enhancement in one of the next updates, please upvote this idea:
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