I must be missing something here, because on the face of it Power Automate looks like it should be very powerful. But each time I come to try and use it I fail. Now, I'm not what I would call a good developer, but after 30 years in tech, I hope I'm not an idiot. This afternoon I spent another unproductive two hours failing to compose a simple workflow. Something I could knock up in code but because I want it to be owned by non-developers and behind SSO, Automate makes sense.
I try to create a flow, except every time there's something wrong when trying to pass values between blocks or actually do anything useful with them. When I think I have it, I press save and get errors which prevent me from saving, and yet the errors can't be fixed because they make no sense. I ask Copilot what's wrong and it says there's nothing wrong, I give it the error message and it tells me nothing's wrong, then suddenly things that were apparently okay in the flow are now not okay, but unrelated to the things that were erroring before. Now I have new errors. Except these errors are for things that were automatically filled out when I created the flow, so how can they be bad parameters in the block?
For example, a Conditional block that errors, saying there's a problem with the input to the block, but Copilot disagrees. All the Conditional is doing is checking message body starts with a word.
I'm tired, I hate it when tools want to appear useful but because they can't explain themselves properly you have to know everything before you can know what's wrong.
