# Prevent Duplicates while Creating or Updating Records using Power Automate Flow Suppose you are setting up a Power Automate Flow for generating “New Account” records, and you want to find out if there are duplicate account records existing in your CRM system. Then, no worries, you can find duplicates using our action in Power Automate Flow. Here’s how you can execute duplicate detection from Power Automate Flow. For the current scenario, we’re going to manually trigger the flow, but you can execute or trigger the same for all triggering stages of the flow.
Creating or Updating Records using Power Automate Flow
Inside the manual trigger flow, you will have to add the following inputs and entity details: ``` EnityDetails: {"Attributes":{"name":"jamal"},"EntityId":"","PrimaryIdAttribute":"accountid"} PrimaryEntity: “account” MatchingEntity: “account” ```
Creating or Updating Records using Power Automate Flow
Now you will have to perform an unbound action, for which you will have to select the following action **“ikl\_InogicDeDupeDGetDuplicateRecordsCount”** from the Action Name look-up and pass the following inputs: **PrimaryEntityDetails:** EntityDetails **PrimaryEntityName:** PrimaryEntity **MatchingEntityName:** MatchingEntity
Creating or Updating Records using Power Automate Flow
Once the action is executed, it will provide a count of duplicate records. If the record count is less than 1, then the flow will create a new record in the account entity.
Creating or Updating Records using Power Automate Flow
Add your desired data inside the row for creating account records using Power Automate Flow.
Creating or Updating Records using Power Automate Flow
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