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Totally new to PA & almost clueless. However, my basic, simple flow doesn't work and I'm getting an error message which bottom line appears to be saying that the Post to Twitter element is a string, when an array is expected.

I've looked elsewhere to find a similarly simple flow to mine, but that WORKS! It appears to just like mine in it's compilation but I can't see why mine doesn't work.

All help gratefully received.

I've attached a couple of screenshots of the flow, I hope.

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YOur Tweet action is fine. But you are using an Apply to each loop with multiple items added to the Loop. The loop is expecting one thing of type array to loop on. YOu are supplying four values that all appear to be strings. I don't think you need the loop at all unless you are getting an array of RSS items. In that case the loop should be on the RSS feed.

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Hi and thanks. I really am clueless & inexperienced etc with this general area. I've just a little exposure to automation, using simple free options but which aren't always....free!

I generally get what you're saying & I'm wondering how I applied the loop (per top left icon) to the Twitter message "box"! However, if that's the problem, my question is.. how do I remove it? If I start "trial & error" fiddling, I'm likely to action something else unintended!!

Can you help once more?

Many thanks
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The dynamic content in the twitter box itself looks to be right. Its the entry in the Apply to each loop that's wrong. If you delete the loop and just add a Post a Tweet action and then add your feed entries back in it will create a loop for you if you need it. But I don't think you will need it.

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OK thanks. Well what I've done is to re-do it afresh and excluding the loop, wherever that came from!? The test works which is great but it's still not perfect & for me PA isn't intuitive an interface, making it a really hard and time-consuming learning curve. I at least need to find out how to get the correct time to be displayed! = correct timezone, if I can find it. Cheers for your help.

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There is an action that will convert the UTC time to whatever timezone you want it in. The biggest issue is deciding what timezone it should be in.

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Well I've managed to sort the correct date format in an RSS version of the Blogger message to Twitter flow! A result for me!! A real issue I'm having is that the blogger message content (Feed Summary in RSS Blogger feed, Post Content in straight from Blogger post) is appearing in html code format on Twitter. I'm not seeing how to resolve that either at the moment!! I've tried Html to Plain Text converter but whilst the flow runs successfully, the result is still in html code! Any help welcome of course!

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Sorry, please ignore the Blog2Twit image, it's been completely changed from that....🙄

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Well I've managed to sort the correct date format in an RSS version of the Blogger message to Twitter flow! A result for me!! A real issue I'm having is that the blogger message content (Feed Summary in RSS Blogger feed, Post Content in straight from Blogger post) is appearing in html code format on Twitter. I'm not seeing how to resolve that either at the moment!! I've tried Html to Plain Text converter but whilst the flow runs successfully, the result is still in html code! Any help welcome of course!

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Make sure you are using the output from the HTML to text action. You are still using the original Feed summary in your tweet.

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Many thanks, I've quickly seen what I needed to do after sleeping on it!
Well thanks again, practise breeds familiarity👍

Unfortunately, there's no free-to-use url shortener without paying at least £14.99GBP, or signing up to sum per month to create my own, which wouldn't make it worthwhile.

Ditto character limiter for the tweeted message to avoid flow error. Unless I've missed the action option?
Anything to advise on that at all?

For the moment though, the RSS feed "Dynamic Content" options don't appear to include the blog-post url, which seems odd. Are you able to shed light upon this?

My intention would be to include the direct blog report link at the end of the tweet being posted. Not essential but provides a quick link back to the more informative blog.

Once again, many thanks for your learned advice 😁
Pete

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