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Seemingly Inconsistent Behavior when Testing Flows - variable typing

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Has anyone conquered Testing flows with non-string variables?

 

I have been using the Test function to test my flows successfully as long as the variables I am "Asking for from PowerApps" are strings.  When I want to test a Flow that need to accept a numeric or int, I keep getting essentially a Type mismatch error.  I would have assumed that to enter a string you would quote it and to enter a numeric you would leave the number unquoted but alas, that doesn't seem to work.

 

While I am at it, I also struggle with it prompting me for initialization variables for Flow steps that I have deleted.  It is like they are stuck in some cache somewhere.  I have to close everything up and start over again with a new flow.  This requires that I make no mistakes (a stretch) and also not use variables to test flow behaviors because they get caught in the cache somewhere when I delete them after the troubleshooting is complete.

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Any help or insights will be greatly appreciated.

 

                                                                      

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