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Power Automate - fteam Notification Flow

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Power Automate — fteam Change Notification (Rate Limited)

Sends a mobile notification when theFteam OneDrive folder is modified, with a max of one notification per minute.

Rate limiting works by reading/writing a timestamp to a text file in OneDrive and skipping the notification if one was sent less than 60 seconds ago.

Timestamp file: OneDrive - Coytis/Claude/fteam_last_notified.txt

Flow Steps

Trigger

  • When a file is created or modified (OneDrive)
  • Folder: path to your theFteam folder

Action 1 — Get file content

  • Action: Get file content (OneDrive)
  • File: /Claude/fteam_last_notified.txt

Action 2 — Parse the timestamp

  • Action: Initialize variable
  • Name: lastNotified
  • Type: String
  • Value: @{body('Get_file_content')}

Action 3 — Check if 60 seconds have passed

  • Action: Condition
  • Expression (left): @{div(sub(ticks(utcNow()), ticks(variables('lastNotified'))), 10000000)}
  • Operator: is greater than
  • Value: 60

If YES branch (more than 60 seconds ago)

Action 4 — Send notification

  • Action: Send me a mobile notification (Power Automate app)
  • Text: theFteam folder was updated

Action 5 — Update timestamp file

  • Action: Update file (OneDrive)
  • File: /Claude/fteam_last_notified.txt
  • Content: @{utcNow()}

If NO branch

  • Leave empty — flow just ends with no notification

Notes

  • The ticks() expression converts a datetime to 100-nanosecond intervals — dividing the difference by 10,000,000 gives seconds
  • The txt file starts with a dummy date (2000-01-01T00:00:00) so the first trigger always fires
  • If the file read fails for any reason, add a “Configure run after” on Action 2 to handle errors gracefully

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