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What does test do? Flow ran successfully, but no email.

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I just created a "Happy birthday email to employees" flow and did a test with my own email about 30 minutes ago. It said "Flow ran successfully". I have yet to receive an email though, but I have the birthdate as today. When I select Test Flow > Perform Trigger Action, will that still send an email to the person who's birthdate is shown as being today? Or is the test just to confirm that the flow will function properly?

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Re: What does test do? Flow ran successfully, but no email.

Hi @Anonymous ,

Your flow run failed at the "Send an email" action, and the expression in the condition is works, could you please share a screenshot of the configuration of your "Send an email" action in the flow?

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@v-yuazh-msft
I tried to implement your condition and it came back as failed.
Here is the edit:

Here is the flow once I tested:
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@v-yuazh-msft and @abm,

Also, here is a screenshot of my list in SharePoint.
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@v-yuazh-msft and @abm,
My condition is:
equals(items('Apply_to_each')?['Birthday_x0020_Date'], formatDateTime(utcNow(), 'MM-dd')) is equal to True.

The original template I pulled from microsoft "Happy birthday email to employees" kept failing at "Condition" so I found a solution in another post yesterday to make the flow run successfully.
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Re: What does test do? Flow ran successfully, but no email.

Hi @Anonymous ,

Could you please share more details about the expression in your condition?

I afraid that there is issue on the expression in your Condition, please take a try to create the condition with expression below:

The expression in the flow as below:

formatDateTime(utcNow(),'yyyy-MM-dd')

The flow would run successfully as below:

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Re: What does test do? Flow ran successfully, but no email.

Hi,

Thanks for the picture. Looks like there are two records found in your condition and it says failed. Could you expand the condition and check. It's difficult to say from the picture.

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And here is a picture of the flow completed.
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Hi @abm,

I selected the first option to manually trigger the test. So my question is, would that send an email to the people whose birthday is listed as today? I assume doing the test just takes away the "Recurrence" and will send an email according to the following conditions. Thanks!
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Re: What does test do? Flow ran successfully, but no email.

Hi @Anonymous ,

The first option is manually trigger the test by doing the action that triggers the flow.

The second option is use data from previous runs to perform the test.

If a condition is not true that doesn't mean that the flow is failed. It's depends on the logic of the flow actions.

You could look the flow history to see which are the steps ran successfully.

Also if you could show a screen shot of your flow that will be really helpful.

If you have any questions please let me know.

Thanks