OnStart Create Variable and Run Flow Error

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I'm very new to PowerApps.

I am trying to get the EmployeeID of the person using a PowerApp from Azure using a Flow as shown here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69223207/can-we-get-active-directory-property-named-employee-id-using-office365users-conn

I am trying to run this flow "OnStart" of the "App" using "Set(varEmployeeID, GetEmployeeId.Run())". The error says "Incompatible type. We can't evaluate your formula because the context variable typs are incompatible with the types of values in other places in your app."

I have a "Label" that is trying to display the result of this Flow using "varEmployeeID.employeeid"

It seems like I need to change the "Label" so that it can accept the result of the variable, but I'm not sure how.

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RandyHayes 76,299 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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I would do a search of the app to see where else you are using varEmployeeID. The error you are seeing is stating that in some place in your app you are assigning something different to the variable.

In other words, if you have one place in the app where you set a record to a variable and then another where you try to set a string to the same variable, you will get that error.

I hope this is helpful for you.
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Should it not be this?
Set(varEmployeeID, GetEmployeeId.Run().EmployeeId) then in the label it is varEmployeeID.

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I did a search, and it's not being used anywhere else.
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I gave that a try, and now my "Label" says "The property on this control expects Text values. The rule produces Error values which are incompatible."
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What is the return value from your Flow? It should be listed/named in the Return to PowerApps ending block of the flow.
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It returns the Employee ID field value

from Azure
RandyHayes 76,299 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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So yes then, you should have a .EmployeeID property returned from the flow.

Set your formula to: Set(varEmployeeID, GetEmployeeId.Run().EmployeeId) and see if you are getting the value from the flow properly.
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The first screenshot in my previous comment shows that I'm getting "employeeid": "8521" in the Output. Could this be because of the Schema in the "Parse JSON" step?

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "employeeId": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "@odata.context": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "@odata.id": {
      "type": "string"
    }
  }
}

It has "type": "string" and the error in PowerApps says "The property on this control expects Text values."
Do I need to convert this string to text somehow?
RandyHayes 76,299 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Not so concerned over the flow return schema, but more about what you get IN your App.

So if you put a button in your app (let's just use that to troubleshoot) and set the OnSelect action formula to:

Set(varEmployeeID, GetEmployeeId.Run().EmployeeId)

What do you get??
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I know part of my issue is not fully understanding how all of this works.

I added a button and put the formula as the "OnSelect". It has three issues:

'Run' is an unknown or unsupported function in namespace 'GetEmployeeId'

Invalid use of '.'

Incompatible type. We can't evaluate your formula because the content variable types are incompatible with the types of values in other places in your app.

The Flow is in the App (so far as I can tell)