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Power Automate - Building Flows
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Child flow suddenly requiring more inputs than defined

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Posted on 26 Apr 2023 10:31:47 by 47

I have a child flow that requires the following inputs to be defined

 

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However, when calling this flow from another "parent" flow additional fields are requested and the call fails because I haven't populated them (even though the location field isn't mandatory)

tidedbryant_0-1682504990336.png

 

Viewing the code for the trigger on the child flow does show these fields, but as you can see the interface doesn't show them within the Child flow. This doesn't feel correct, has anybody experienced this and knows of a fix?

 

{
 "kind": "Button",
 "inputs": {
 "schema": {
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
 "text": {
 "title": "Update type from parent flow",
 "type": "string",
 "x-ms-dynamically-added": true,
 "description": "Please enter your input",
 "x-ms-content-hint": "TEXT"
 },
 "number": {
 "title": "id from parent flow",
 "type": "number",
 "x-ms-dynamically-added": true,
 "description": "Please enter a number",
 "x-ms-content-hint": "NUMBER"
 },
 "key-button-date": {
 "title": "Date",
 "type": "string",
 "x-ms-dynamically-added": false
 },
 "location": {
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
 "fullAddress": {
 "title": "Full address",
 "type": "string",
 "x-ms-dynamically-added": false
 },
 "address": {
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
 "countryOrRegion": {
 "title": "Country/Region",
 "type": "string",
 "x-ms-dynamically-added": false
 },
 "city": {
 "title": "City",
 "type": "string",
 "x-ms-dynamically-added": false
 },
 "state": {
 "title": "State",
 "type": "string",
 "x-ms-dynamically-added": false
 },
 "street": {
 "title": "Street",
 "type": "string",
 "x-ms-dynamically-added": false
 },
 "postalCode": {
 "title": "Postal code",
 "type": "string",
 "x-ms-dynamically-added": false
 }
 },
 "required": [
 "countryOrRegion",
 "city",
 "state",
 "street",
 "postalCode"
 ]
 },
 "coordinates": {
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
 "latitude": {
 "title": "Latitude",
 "type": "number",
 "x-ms-dynamically-added": false
 },
 "longitude": {
 "title": "Longitude",
 "type": "number",
 "x-ms-dynamically-added": false
 }
 },
 "required": [
 "latitude",
 "longitude"
 ]
 }
 }
 }
 },
 "required": [
 "text",
 "number",
 "key-button-date",
 "location"
 ]
 },
 "headersSchema": {
 "x-ms-user-name-encoded": {
 "title": "User name",
 "type": "string",
 "format": "byte",
 "x-ms-dynamically-added": false
 },
 "x-ms-user-email-encoded": {
 "title": "User email",
 "type": "string",
 "format": "byte",
 "x-ms-dynamically-added": false
 },
 "x-ms-user-timestamp": {
 "title": "Timestamp",
 "type": "string",
 "x-ms-dynamically-added": false
 }
 }
 },
 "metadata": {
 "operationMetadataId": "xxx"
 }
}

 

 

  • Rajat Awasthi Profile Picture
    37 on 03 Oct 2023 at 06:40:48
    Re: Child flow suddenly requiring more inputs than defined

    Hi @tidedbryant ,

     

    please refer another post with proposed solutions for the same issue

    https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/General-Power-Automate/Run-a-Child-Flow-Action-now-has-required-Fields-Date-Full/td-p/1516606

     

  • diezvai Profile Picture
    10 on 02 Oct 2023 at 21:40:27
    Re: Child flow suddenly requiring more inputs than defined

    Hi @tidedbryant.

    I have exactly the same issue here - did you find any solution?

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