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Using the initialise variable action

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Hi

 

I have a flow that is updating managed metadata columns in SharePoint. To do this I have to authenticate to the SharePoint lists webservice via Oauth and an App credential. 

 

This works well and I have started storing things like Realm, Tenant ID, Client ID and Secret in variables. 

 

But I also use scopes to keep my flows readable. Trouble is, Initialise variable actions cannot be put in scopes, which ends up defeating the purpose of them.

 

Consider this picture below... Between the trigger and the first scope, I have a heap of variables to initialise. Surely these can also be placed in a scope? I mean if I go back to using Compose actions I can put them in scopes which makes the workflow much more readable...

 

Is fixing this on the backlog somewhere?

 

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    you are right; at least we need to be able to hide some actions or group of actions. That is also the reason why I do this:

     

    https://sergeluca.wordpress.com/2017/10/08/generate-an-azure-oauth2-0-token-from-a-service-flow-and-keep-you-flows-simple/

     

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