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Posted on by SwingeyP 52

Hi. I have a flow which sends an email.

 

The email contains a Var 'Priority' - This is a drop down. The email sends the value 717107001 but I want 'URGENT' (It's text value)

 

I have triggerbody()?['Priority.SelectedText.value'] - This doesn't work.

 

Can anyone tell me the correct syntax to extract the text from a dropdown please.

 

Paul

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    CU-18081211-6 9,272 Moderator on at

    Hi @SwingeyP ,

    So ... you want to send the dropdown selected value to a flow which sends an email.

    You have to start from the flow where you have to define what values are expected from powerapps when the flow is triggered. Use this value inside flow as you needed.

    Inside the PowerApps, when you try to connect a control to this flow you will see that you need to provide values as parameter to flow. Here you can put your Priority.SelectedText.value ,and this value will be used inside flow.

     

    Hope it helps !

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    SwingeyP 52 on at

    So, where would you put the Priority.SelectedText.value?

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    SwingeyP 52 on at

    I have tried putting triggerbody()?['Priority.SelectedText.vlaue'] in the Var. It accepts the expression OK.

    When I run I get nothing in the value. I checked to make sure the value is set as before and get 717710001 so I know there is something selected.

     

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    SwingeyP 52 on at

    Help Please!! - This is driving me nuts. It has to be easy to display the text values rather than the number of the dropdown. 

     

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    SROUrgency is displaying 717710001 - but the priority trigger body shows nothing 😞

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