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Allow us to keep flow variables from last execution for 'Run From Here'

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Posted on by Microsoft Employee

I find myself regularly wishing that PAD would not clear out the flow variables each time I execute the flow. Consider debugging and wishing to use "Run From Here" on a step that would take place after a lengthy process of retrieving the data.

 

I noticed the eraser icon for the first time today (bottom of sceenshot) and it had me thinking it might now allow us to not erase them.. but alas it's the same as before.

 

Is this a feature that has been considered, or am I by chance missing a way this can already be achieved? It would save me a ton of time developing. In this case, I'm writing a flow that retrieves my shares by ticker from M1 Finance and then populates a Google Sheet with the values... I must currently rebuild that data by logging into M1 and getting the data each time I execute the flow. I'd much rather "Run from here" on the problematic step that's causing me debug pain and reference the data that is preserved. 

 

I'd love to see an icon next to that eraser that would persist that data for the next run... or a "Run from here with existing flow data" option. Thanks for reading

 

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  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    Hello @kelway 

     

    I agree with your idea.

    "Run from here with existing flow variables" is what I really want.

  • jesse535 Profile Picture
    28 on at

    I agree it is very frustrating to have to run a long complicated flow to get data when it's already in there and I only want to re-run from the last line or two that had an error.

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