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I receive the following error after the flow successfully executes and sends the email upon the completion of a MS Form. Is the flow broken?
Unable to process template language expressions for action 'Condition:_Fresh_News' at line '0' and column '0': 'The template language function 'int' was invoked with a parameter that is not valid. The value cannot be converted to the target type.'.
@tnalls No worries. It's not clear from your screenshot what your criteria is in your condition action. I would recommend troubleshooting your condition action as I've suggested. Remove the Send an Email action until you can confirm your condition is set up properly. Alternatively you can add a Terminate action to stop the flow from continuing on until you've troubleshooted your condition action.
Okay, I apologize - I totally had two of my flows mixed up in my head that I had been working on at the same time. So this workflow is to send an email when I publish a major version of a news post. I made updates to a news post originally posted weeks ago, not expecting an email. As seen in this screen grab, there is a successful run notification and then a subsequent failure seconds later but I did not receive a notification email at all. So my questions:
1. Why was there a "successful" run if it was not a major publish?
2. If the answer to the condition is "no" and no email is sent, is that considered a workflow failure?
I hope I'm making sense... I'm still learning. 🙃
@tnalls Can you provide more insight on your workflow and logic? In your original post you indicated that your flow runs upon a completion of an MS Form. However, you aren't use the When a new response is submitted (MS Forms) trigger.
Additionally, your condition action is using the is equal to operator. This operator looks for an exact match. You need to troubleshoot this portion of your flow. It's best to verify the output of the dynamic content as the Condition action isn't very helpful when troubleshooting.
I cover how to troubleshoot a condition action in the first section of this YT Tutorial: 5 Power Automate Troubleshooting FAQs and Helpful Tips for Creating Better Flows
In this Power Automate tutorial, I explore 5 frequently asked questions that pop up when troubleshooting a flow. If you’d like to to level up your Power Automate flow skills and learn how to troubleshoot your Power Automate flow—this tutorial is for you!
IN THIS VIDEO:
✅ How to troubleshoot a false Condition action result
✅ How to get dynamic content when it isn’t selectable from the list of dynamic content
✅ How to troubleshoot an Apply to Each action that isn’t looping through
✅ How to troubleshoot a skipped Apply to Each action
✅ How to troubleshoot a Filter Query
✅ How to use a SharePoint yes/no column in a Filter Query
✅ How to use Compose actions to troubleshoot a Power Automate flow
✅ How to troubleshoot multiple emails being sent
✅ How to troubleshoot multiple Teams messages being sent
Also, since you are using an automated trigger, I would recommend utilizing Trigger Conditions in your flow. This way your flow will only trigger when you want it to. To learn more about Trigger Conditions, refer to the other tutorial I've linked below.
4 Ways You Can Use Trigger Conditions in Your Microsoft Power Automate Flow
If you are using an Automated Cloud flow trigger in your flow—you need to consider adding trigger conditions.
Do YOU 🫵 know what a trigger condition is? Trigger conditions can be set in most flow triggers. These conditions you set must be true for the trigger to fire. In this Power Automate tutorial, I’m going to show you how to use trigger conditions in your flows to control when your Power Automate flows trigger.
If your plan has flow run limits—you can avoid triggering your flows unnecessarily by using trigger conditions.
I’ll cover four different flow examples that would benefit from trigger conditions:
⚡️ Triggering a flow when a column is changed to a specific value
⚡️ Triggering a Flow When an Event Updated or Deleted
⚡️ Triggering a Flow When a New Folder is Created
⚡️ Triggering a Flow When a Specific Email is Received I’ll also show you a trick on how to easily create the expressions needed and give you a few tips on how to troubleshoot your flow.
IN THIS VIDEO:
✅ Four different flows that would benefit from trigger conditions
✅ What is a trigger condition?
✅ How to add a trigger condition to your flow
✅ How to trigger a flow when a column is changed to a specific value
✅ How to trigger a flow when an event is updated or Deleted
✅ How to trigger a flow when a new folder is created
✅ How to trigger a flow when a specific email is received
✅ How to troubleshoot a trigger condition
✅ How to prevent case sensitivity issues with a trigger condition
✅ How to use the filter array action to easily compose an expression that can be used in a trigger condition
@tnalls It's hard to offer any recommendations without seeing the error and how your flow is laid out. If you are using the new designer, toggle it off and click each action to expand it. Upload a screenshot of your flow in edit mode and the error you are receiving, it would help to provide more insight.
In the meantime, the error indicates that you are using an expression with the int() function. This function requires a single parameter—a string. It looks like the value you are using isn't what the function expects. If you are using dynamic content in your expression, I would recommend outputting the dynamic content in a Compose action to verify the output.
I cover how to troubleshoot a condition action in the first section of this YT Tutorial: 5 Power Automate Troubleshooting FAQs and Helpful Tips for Creating Better Flows
In this Power Automate tutorial, I explore 5 frequently asked questions that pop up when troubleshooting a flow. If you’d like to to level up your Power Automate flow skills and learn how to troubleshoot your Power Automate flow—this tutorial is for you!
IN THIS VIDEO:
✅ How to troubleshoot a false Condition action result
✅ How to get dynamic content when it isn’t selectable from the list of dynamic content
✅ How to troubleshoot an Apply to Each action that isn’t looping through
✅ How to troubleshoot a skipped Apply to Each action
✅ How to troubleshoot a Filter Query
✅ How to use a SharePoint yes/no column in a Filter Query
✅ How to use Compose actions to troubleshoot a Power Automate flow
✅ How to troubleshoot multiple emails being sent
✅ How to troubleshoot multiple Teams messages being sent
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