Condition for If item is created or modified

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Hello,

I'm looking for some help with this. I'm looking to have a condition on whether the item was Created or Modified.

So basically:

If item is created: Create item for different List

If item was modified: Update item for the list.

I'm just having trouble on what I need to put in the condition.

______ is equal to ______

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Ellis Karim 11,995 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi @bdoyle86 ,

New Item:

Created Date = Modified Date

Updated item

Created Date is not equal to Modified Date

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Hello , cannot compare created and modified most of the time there is a little difference between two values

"Created": "2026-04-02T10:14:55Z",
"Modified": "2026-04-02T10:14:56Z",

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David_MA 14,090 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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@Ellis Karim is correct in the solution. If there is a difference between the created and modified times, that means the item was modified. The only time the two values will be equal is when the item is created. When an item is created, both fields get the same value, the modified date is not null when the item is created. The created date is static and will never change. Only the modified date will change when an item is modified after it has been created.

For your use case, I would create two workflows instead of putting everything in one.

Create one workflow with the trigger, When an item is created.

Create the other flow with the trigger, When an item or file is modified.

No conditions required and each flow will serve the specific use case intended.

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Ellis Karim 11,995 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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@AH-03040917-0, @David_MA

See the comments section of When an item is created vs When an item is created or modified where "Created" and "Modified" are SOMETIMES not the same:

ramesh.1064 says:

The problem is Created and Modified SOMETIMES are not the same at the time of item creation. I observed this many times using “Created or Modified” trigger. The difference in time between these two columns is very very small that these columns fail to satisfy the condition. For that reason I still prefer Created over Created or Modified trigger.

Pieter Veenstra responded:

If you find those small changes you could also check the difference rather than using equals...

@David_MA's suggestion may be the way for @AH-03040917-0 to proceed.

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