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I am building a flow to integrate with powerapps. It needs to take outputs out from text which users type in powerapps.

im using the compose function, however it isn't registering all compose items.

I currently have 30 compose items within the flow, but only 28 are being read, with powerapps confirming that only 28 arguments are there. Additionally, when i peek code it is not reading all of the compose items, for example "compose8_inputs_1" is not present.

How do i get powerautomate to register all of my compose items (i intend to add more)

Is there a maximum amount of compose items it can register, and if so what other option is there to bring user text out of powerapps to populate a word document

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Compose8_input_1 is present

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SanmeshG 1,947 Moderator on at

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Hi @Anonymous ,

Creating 28 or more Compose actions or passing those many input actions would be a tedious approach in my view , I would suggest you to create a collection in PowerApps with All User inputs and pass that collection as JSON from PowerApps to Power Automate.

In Power Automate you can use the Parse JSON action to easily read all the columns.

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Still quite new to this and that sounds like a good work around. How would i be go about enacting your suggestion?

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Hi @Anonymous ,

If you are using Form , I recommend you to use the formula as below.
ClearCollect( colData, Form1.Updates )
Here colData will have all the column from your Form(Data source used for your Form).

But if you are using input controls , then you have to create a collection as below and send the data from PowerApps to Power Automate.
ClearCollect( colDataNew, { //Text Title: DataCardValue1.Text, //Single Select Choice Country: DataCardValue3.Selected.Value, //Date - Value selected from Date Input Conrol DOJ: DataCardValue12.SelectedDate, //Multi-Select Choice Column CountriesVisited: DataCardValue13.SelectedItems, //User or Group Single Select Manager: DataCardValue15.Selected, //Multi Select User TeamMembers: DataCardValue14.SelectedItems, //Lookup EmployeeId:DataCardValue17.Selected } ); //Send PowerApps Data to PowerAutomate 'sendCollectionData'.Run( JSON( colDataNew, JSONFormat.IgnoreBinaryData ) )

Else why don't you pick the data directly from your Data source and input them into your Word Doc. This would be the best approach using trigger such as when an item is created or when an item is created or modified and get the data from your SP list(Sorry I missed the point that you are creating the word doc earlier).

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