When an Item is Deleted trigger is not triggering in Power Automate

Today Connor and I found that a flow with the When an Item is deleted, was not being triggered. Why could this possibly happen?

Finding the Failed flow triggers

In your flow run history you will find that there is a All runs link. The all runs link will give you a list of all the runs. However in my case there were no runs yet.

Flow run history with the All runs link
Flow run history with the All runs link

Clicking on the all runs got me to an overview where I can select the Failed checks view of the flow runs. This lists all the Failed run. It would really help if the Failed checks weren’t hidden away in the UI.

Failed flow runs in the Failed check view
Failed flow runs in the Failed check view

When an item is deleted trigger failing

When clicking on a failed flow run, the problem was clear. The When an item is deleted trigger is failing and the Only Site Collection Admins are allowed to use this trigger is returned by the trigger.

When an item is deleted trigger reporting - Only Site Collection Admins are allowed to use this trigger
When an item is deleted trigger reporting – Only Site Collection Admins are allowed to use this trigger

Only Site Collection Admins are allowed to use this trigger is a clear message. I gave my account site collection permissions and the flow started working.


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