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How to use outputted text variable from a child flow as a variable in the parent flow?

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I have a Parent flow and a Child flow. I run the Child flow from the parent to read data from excel>store it in output variables and then pass it as output variable to the parent flow. If in the Child flow, I store the data in a Custom object, I can call if in the Parent flow. But I don't know how to call the variables in the parent flow, which were stored as text or a list in the child flow.

This is the Output variable that I want to access from the Parent flow.

But then in the parent flow it is empty.

Do I miss something here?

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Agnius Bartninkas Most Valuable Professional on at

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It's the Run desktop flow action in your parent flow that should be set up to produce output variables. But it seems to be bugged after the latest update (v 2.38) as it does not provide an interface for input/output variables in there. So, we need to have Microsoft fix that before we can use it properly.

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Thanks for the reply @Agnius, in the same manner, if the output variable in the Child flow data type is Custom object,
I can use it correctly in my Parent flow.
I would expect that if the if the data type is Text, then there shouldn't be anything complicated to just call the variable. So I am not sure, if there is something buggy with the app or myself 🙂 .

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Could it be that you built the case with the custom object before an update to the latest version of PAD?

I would recommend reporting this to MS support. It really does seem like a bug, as the Run desktop flow action should have an interface for the output variables.

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