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Hello,

I want to create a sharepoint list element, if a user has a manager in Office 365. The problem I have, the element "Get manager" throws an error, if he has not a manager.

The good thing is, that my flow are creating the elements for the users, who has a manager.

The bad thing is, that the flow said he had an mistake, but I only want to ignore these errors.

In other programming languages, I would use "HasManager" and would then use "GetManager". But I dont know, how to do this in Power Automate.

Thanks for your help.

Best regards

Marcel

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eliotcole 4,390 Moderator on at

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Have a play with the Groups Graph actions, I'm currently trying to find out how to display manager details via a Graph HTTP call, but it's not easy!

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Hi @Mandree :

If the target user does not use a manager, then Get manger will fail. So you only need to add a branch under Get manger, execute branch A successfully, and execute branch B if execution fails, so that even if flow reports an error when running, it can ensure that the function is normal.

1\Add a parallel branch

2\

The Result:

You can find that the fourth loop execution failed, Flow did not end immediately, and the fifth loop executed successfully.

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Bof

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Mandree 17 on at

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Thanks for your reply. But I wrote, that my flow does the same.
"The good thing is, that my flow are creating the elements for the users, who has a manager."

But what I dont want, that in the flowhistory the status jumps on error.

So how could I edit my flow, that I dont get an error in flow history.

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The Groups connector has a Graph HTTP request action that you should be able to interact with graph to check manager status a little better ... I've just been struggling to find the right way in for you on that.

Seriously, I hyper-focused on this for HOURS yesterday by mistake ... but it was educational for me!

The manager information is an additional set of information on a user that isn't always sent with the core data about a user, and I have just been struggling to get it to show for the (admittedly 'guest') users that have me as a manager for testing purposes in my personal tenancy.

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eliotcole 4,390 Moderator on at

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Also, sorry for second post, @Mandree , but it's a different point. Have you tried using different connectors, like Groups, anyway?

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Hi @Mandree :

You could add a "Terminate" after the 'apply to each' action

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Bof

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