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Sometimes getting "Show your HTML text here." when running Flow

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I am running a Power Apps triggered Flow which creates a HTML document in SharePoint. Most of the times I run it, it works completely fine, but sometimes it is creating the document and none of the HTML text is showing and instead it just says "Show your HTML text here."

 

Is there any reason it takes multiple attempts at the same action to work?

 

I have attached screenshots of Flow and Power Apps button.

 

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  • johnomahoney Profile Picture
    32 on at
    Re: Sometimes getting "Show your HTML text here." when running Flow

    ok, cheers

    I have set up a respond to powerapps for both outcomes with a message to inform the user if the PDF was created

     

    Maybe some helpful info:

    when you create an HTML box the default text is 'Show your HTML text here'

    This is what is getting passed sometimes to Power automate

    So the condition I am checking for is if size = 56 in order to determine what message to send back

  • JohnAageAnderse Profile Picture
    1,986 on at
    Re: Sometimes getting "Show your HTML text here." when running Flow

    Hello @johnomahoney 

    To me that looks then to be an issue in the Power Apps! It does not always deliver the data to the Power Automate (flow). Please review the Power Apps functionality.

    To allow you to verify that the Power Apps does or does not deliver the data, add a compose action before the Create file PO and add the Power Apps data field in the Compose input field.

    Then in the future runs, you can check what was delivered to Power Automate!

    Kind regards, John

  • johnomahoney Profile Picture
    32 on at
    Re: Sometimes getting "Show your HTML text here." when running Flow

    It seems that the 'request in powerapps' in the create file section, is not picking up the html in powerapps all the time. If someone more techy than me could help explain why and how to fix  - that would be awesome!!

  • johnomahoney Profile Picture
    32 on at
    Re: Sometimes getting "Show your HTML text here." when running Flow

    ok, I have compared 2 flows from the same user on the same day

    one creates pdf , one does not

     

    The difference in the code is that on the trigger output the one that fails has

    "Connection": "Keep-Alive",

    johnomahoney_1-1643269673197.png

     

    johnomahoney_2-1643269741628.png

     

  • JohnAageAnderse Profile Picture
    1,986 on at
    Re: Sometimes getting "Show your HTML text here." when running Flow

    Hello @johnomahoney 

    Thank you for the screenshots, but that is from the flow itself. Can you take the screenshots of the flow run where you had the issue? Then we can identify if the issue is in the flow or in the data being delivered to the flow!

    Kind regards, John

  • johnomahoney Profile Picture
    32 on at
    Re: Sometimes getting "Show your HTML text here." when running Flow

    ha  - no problem  - they can get very long

     

    here is the flow

    HTML is created in Powerapps 

    as mentioned it works most of the time

    johnomahoney_0-1643265780609.png

     

     

  • JohnAageAnderse Profile Picture
    1,986 on at
    Re: Sometimes getting "Show your HTML text here." when running Flow

    Hello @johnomahoney 

    I went to far back in this thread 😄

    Can you open a run in which the issue appeared, expand all the actions, then take a screenshot of everything! Edit out any data you don't want us to see 🙂

    Kind regards, John

  • johnomahoney Profile Picture
    32 on at
    Re: Sometimes getting "Show your HTML text here." when running Flow

    Hi

    maybe got the wrong john?

    My flow has no split - just a straight forward  create, convert and save

    johnomahoney_0-1643235610051.png

     

  • JohnAageAnderse Profile Picture
    1,986 on at
    Re: Sometimes getting "Show your HTML text here." when running Flow

    Hello @johnom 

    Can you show us the actual steps that you have in you flow?

    I am curious to why you have a parallel split just after the Power Apps action!

    Kind regards, John

  • johnom Profile Picture
    68 on at
    Re: Sometimes getting "Show your HTML text here." when running Flow

    Anyone got an answer to this?

    It's intermittent and can't figure it out

    driving me nuts!!!!

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