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BUG: Pasting Actions Within Switch Does Not Work

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Hello,

Reporting here that Copying an Action and pasting within a Switch branch does not work. Fails with the error:

Failed to find <switch name>"<switch branch> in definition.

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Fails when attempting to paste an Action within the same Switch Branch and when attempting to paste within another Switch Branch. Closing/opening browser does not fix the issue.

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    Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee on at

    Other times, the Switch name and Branch are replaced with some kind of GUID:

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    Hi @ericonline ,

     

    A workaround that you could consider is that you can paste the specified action in the next step of the Switch action and drag it to the branch of the Switch.

     

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    Best Regards,

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