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Posted on by Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee

I'm trying to get the name of the user who triggered the flow using Get my profile V2 and then send an email. However, this is the error that I'm getting:

failure_to_fetch_profilefailure_to_fetch_profile

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    v-bacao-msft Microsoft Employee on at

     

    Hi @Anonymous ,

     

    Have you added a new connection for this action according to the method suggested in the error message?

    Like this:

    62.PNG

    Please try the above operation, save the Flow after completing the above operation and see if similar problems still exist.

     

    Best Regards,

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