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Flow runs successfully, but PowerApps thinks there is an issue.

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I have a flow that is triggered by a Power App. The flow simply changes the status on a SharePoint record and sends an email.

 

There is no step in the Flow to respond to the PowerApp, so the PowerApp is just receiving whatever the default response is that gets generated.

 

The PowerApp can trigger the flow and the flow runs successfully (no errors or failures shown in Power Automate), however the PowerApp keeps reporting the following error:

 

Power apps <flowname>.Run failed: The data returned in the response is invalid. Response data should be a valid JSON object.

 

Does anyone have any idea what might be going wrong here? The only change I have made recently was changing the flows to use Connection References instead of connections so that I can migrate between environments. As far as I am aware, the flow call was working fine prior to this. However, if the connections were the issue, I would have expected the flow to be unable to run, not the above reported error.

 

Any ideas? Thanks in advance

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    v-bofeng-msft Profile Picture
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    Hi @rdorman ,

     

    I think this link will help you a lot:

    https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Building-Power-Apps/The-data-returned-in-the-response-is-invalid-Response-data/td-p/1430420

     

    If the problem still exist , please consider providing some screen shoots of your flow and the app.

     

    Best Regards,
    Bof

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    CU16050836-1 Profile Picture
    116 on at

    Thanks @v-bofeng-msft . 

     

    For anyone who might be interested, the solution was to add a new step at the end of the flow returning an empty JSON. Not sure why this was required when it wasn't previously..

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