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I am new to the Power platform and I am loving learning and slowly building my app. I have created a Custom Connector that takes a postcode and gives us the constituency, this has been tested and is now working. I'm now trying to incorporate this in my Contact form so that when the Address1_PostalCode column is populated then the cre66_Constituency column gets updated with the output from the Connector.

This is what I have so far... Although I can locate my Connector, I cannot find a way to pass the postcode to the Connector. If someone can tell me step by step what I need to do, I'll be very grateful! I thought I was close to getting it sorted having managed to finally get the Connector to work today, but it looks like I'm not quite there...

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Hi @CD-28031715-0,

Just to double check, is the field not listed in the Dynamic Content?

Normally you should be able to select it from there for the config of a next action. Can you also share a bit more details of your custom connector?

Below is an example with a Compose action.

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Thanks @expiscornovus for your reply. I managed to move on a bit after posting, so yes I found the field I needed in the dynamic content. I thought I'd got it all sussed but it was still erroring. I've now had to leave it for a while to get the kids from school (then on to a football match) so will re-visit it later on hopefully.

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@Expiscornovus I replied while I was out and about earlier, but the tag didn't work, so you may not have seen my earlier reply.

This is the error that I'm getting now...

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This is what my flow looks like

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Hi @CD-28031715-0

The postal code is text, not a number. That's why you cannot compare it to 0 (which is a number/integer)

You can use an empty function for this to check that it is not empty instead.

Btw, you could also use a trigger condition/filter on the first action as well. This would could prevent a lot of unnecessary flow runs.

Below is an example of the condition action setup

empty(triggerOutputs()?['body/address1_postalcode'])

is equal to false

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Thanks again @expiscornovus (can't tag you for some reason!). I've tried to replicate your screenprint with no success. Please can you tell me step by step how I put the info in the first and third fields.

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This is what I'm ending up with which is clearly wrong...

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I've now managed to get this...

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Hi @CD-28031715-0,

You can add the expressions via the expression tab/fx button.

Here are a couple of additional screenshots if that helps?

Fx button

Expression with empty function

Expression with false function

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Hi again

I was hopeful but now I get this...

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