Answered

Passing a Multi Choice Question response to a flow

(0) Share

Report

Posted on by BioGroBen

Hi there!

I am writing a topic to handle escalations that take user input and pass them to a flow that sends the query via email to the relevant team member. The PVA asks for Name, contact email, related industry, and the query. For the industry, I am using a Multi choice "ask a question" to list industries my company is involved in:

Ideally the variable 'industry' would be type 'string' rather than type 'choice' so I can pass the variable to my power automate flow.

I realize I can set a string variable under the conditional options generated as a result of this question, and then have another conditional to send the flow the variable that has been populated as a result of the user selecting an option:

However this feels clunky and overly complex. Is there a simple way I can store the result of the user selection directly into a string variable so I don't have to mess around with multiple conditionals that essentially all do the same thing?

it would be amazing if I could just use something like industry.toString()

Thanks in advance!

Ben

Categories:

General

All responses (3)

Answers (1)

aparnaa 95 on at

Like (0)

Report

Re: Passing a Multi Choice Question response to a flow

@HenryJammes - I am looking to collect multiple stattionery request via adaptive card in power virtual agent and trying to send it to power automate flow for creating an entry in sharepoint list
when i select Multiselect value, I am unable to save the adpative card.

I am not sure if multiselect values are being considered as an array when i rtry sending to power automate
how do i convert it to a string

The above command is not not working for. I am getting message text is not recognized

{
"type": "Input.ChoiceSet",
"choices": [
{
"title": "Pen",
"value": "Pen"
},
{
"title": "Paper",
"value": "Paper"
}
],
"placeholder": "Select your Request(s)",
"id": "varRequest",
"label": "Stationery Request(s)",
"isRequired": true,
"errorMessage": "Select your Request(s)",
"isMultiSelect": true,
"separator": true,
"spacing": "Large"
}
BioGroBen 28 on at

Like (1)

Report

Re: Passing a Multi Choice Question response to a flow

Hiya Henry,

Fantastic solution! It actually seems like I can simply use the string() function:

Here is the PVA passing the values:

And the Conditions themselves:

Using functions seem to be the best way of handling this, much more elegant than how I was previously passing the details.

Many thanks for your prompt reply and effective solution!

Ben
Verified answer

HenryJammes on at

Like (2)

Report
Re: Passing a Multi Choice Question response to a flow

Hi @BioGroBen,

Have you tried with a Power Fx formula when you pass the variable to your cloud flow?
Text(Topic.industry)

Henry