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Posted on by bmurphy3002

I have a "Power Automate" workflow that runs daily, at 3 am. I have a field in a Sharepoint List called "QuoteAge" whereby, each day, I have the flow go through all jobs that are in the "Quoted" phase, and have the "QuoteAge" autoincrement by a value of 1.

The following are the current general steps:

1. 3m trigger

2. Get all items in Phase "02 Quoted"

3. Apply to Each

4. Update Item ***This is where I have my troubles***

I am trying to use the "add()" function in Power Automate, to essentially take the current "QuoteAge" value, and add "1" to it using the following syntax:

add(1,triggerOutputs()?['QuoteAge'])

When I run it I get the following error.

InvalidTemplate. Unable to process template language expressions in action 'Update_item' inputs at line '0' and column '0': 'The template language function 'add' expects its second parameter to be an integer or a decimal number. The provided value is of type 'Null'. Please see https://aka.ms/logicexpressions#add for usage details.'.

Note: The "QuoteAge" field is a number with no decimals, and all of the items being queried in the "02 Quoted" Phase have numerical values of 0 - 2 currently. (There are no "nulls")

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ManishSolanki 15,091 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi @bmurphy3002

If you updating item inside 'Apply to each' then use the below expression for incrementing column 'QuoteAge':
if(equals(item()?['QuoteAge'],null),0,add(1,int(item()?['QuoteAge'])))
it will handle the null values also

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David_MA 12,966 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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I think you just have your expression backwards, but I suppose it really shouldn't matter. Have you tried add(triggerOutputs()?['QuoteAge'],1) instead.

If that doesn't work, try add(1,int(triggerOutputs()?['QuoteAge']))

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bmurphy3002 5 on at

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Thank you very much! This was a big help. It appears to be working!!

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