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While working on a new flow today, I brought in the 'wait' action and inputted 4 seconds and am receiving an error message stating "Parameter 'Duration': Expression must contain a 'Numeric value'.".

What changed as any value from 1 to Infinity is a numeric value, but PAD is not recognizing it for the moment.

BTW, in a different flow I finished earlier this week, I'm used the "wait" action with no issues. Other flows with 'wait' action have not bombed or broken and they are fully automated with a timer and the ones scheduled to run today ran with no issues or errors.

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NathanAlvares24 1,714 Moderator on at

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Hi @rifij !

Please check if your flow has Power Fx enabled. It looks like a Power Fx flow.

Like this. I also did the same:

Power Fx (Preview) will be written there on top.

Incase if you by mistakenly enabled Power Fx, please create another flow and disable the Power Fx toggle like in below pic:

Do Ctrl+A of all your actions under that Power Fx flow from each subflow and paste into your new flow. Make the same subflows as you see in your Power Fx flow.

But if you are still wanting to keep using Power Fx, just do the what is done in the following pic:

I hope this helps.

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rifij 17 on at

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@NathanAlvares24 thank you for the options.

Yes, for this particular flow I did enable PowerFX when I started. I did not know that enabling PowerFX would have that effect on the wait action though, so this was a learning experience/opportunity for me. I did end up going with your second option of adding = to the 'wait' action and that resolved the error. I'm still trying to understand PowerFX and its features, so happy i came across this one early. Appreciate you

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