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Trigger Flow from keyword with special characters.

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I'm trying to trigger a flow from MS when a keyword is mentioned but I want to use a special character in the keyword.

 

for example

 

.triggerword in the chat would start the flow but triggerword would not.

 

Is this possible?

This is the error I've received trying different special characters.

 

 

{
 "statusCode": 502,
 "headers": {
 "Access-Control-Allow-Methods": "GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, POST",
 "Access-Control-Allow-Origin": "*",
 "Access-Control-Max-Age": "3600",
 "Access-Control-Expose-Headers": "*",
 "Date": "Thu, 03 Mar 2022 19:17:54 GMT",
 "Content-Length": "940",
 "Content-Type": "application/json"
 },
 "body": {
 "error": {
 "code": 502,
 "message": "Unable to parse response JObject:{\r\n \"responses\": [\r\n {\r\n \"id\": \"0\",\r\n \"status\": 400,\r\n \"headers\": {\r\n \"Content-Type\": \"application/json\"\r\n },\r\n \"body\": {\r\n \"error\": {\r\n \"code\": \"BadRequest\",\r\n \"message\": \"Syntax error: character '?' is not valid at position 0 in '?mercury'.\",\r\n \"innerError\": {\r\n \"date\": \"2022-03-03T19:17:54\",\r\n \"request-id\": \"6d186447-3c86-4e24-be1e-29a7555bc6ee\",\r\n \"client-request-id\": \"6d186447-3c86-4e24-be1e-29a7555bc6ee\"\r\n }\r\n }\r\n }\r\n }\r\n ]\r\n}",
 "source": "power-apis-usgov001-public.azure-apihub.us",
 "path": "choose[1]\\when[1]\\choose[2]\\when[1]",
 "policyId": "",
 "clientRequestId": "5b193904-ac50-40c6-9a74-462092d09297"
 }
 }
}

 

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  • ChristianAbata Profile Picture
    8,949 Most Valuable Professional on at
    Re: Trigger Flow from keyword with special characters.

    hi @jacobyoby  if the URI you are using is like https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites?$search

    I recommend you to use only the base https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites then on the HTTP action fill the query fieldslike this

    queris.png

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    jacobyoby Profile Picture
    9 on at
    Re: Trigger Flow from keyword with special characters.

    Thanks! I ended using the the BodyAsText and the the contains condition to check again for my string.

    jacobyoby_0-1646349742057.png

     

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