Run a Child Flow Action now has required Fields. Date, Full Address, Country, City, State, Street, Postal, Latitude, Longitude

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Simplified example. New Cloud flow with Manual Trigger and no inputs.

2nd Manually triggered flow that calls the first Flow in a "Run a Child Flow" action.

9 required inputs that were not referenced in the original a trigger. When did this requirement start for Child Flows and is it going to wreak havoc with all of our existing Child flows.

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manuelstgomes 6,625 on at

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Hi @daxjkent

That doesn't make sense indeed. I smell a bug or something that went wrong in a deployment from Microsoft's site.

I tried to replicate the issue on two tenants, and all is ok, so it's probably something that we need to wait for Microsoft to solve. I know it sucks, but the alternative is to contact the support and check if they can help.

Cheers
Manuel

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SMJVApps 178 on at

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I am getting this same behavior in multiple environments, along with a bunch of other flow bugs (actions not loading, formula editor not loading, error accessing local storage notification).

I suspect once again Microsoft has pushed updates without understanding the implications or properly testing. I have not seen any impact to existing child flows, it is only impacting new flows - hopefully it stays that way.

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Community Power Pla... on at

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Thanks for raising this. I thought it was only me that encounter this issue.

In my flow, the location parameters are not required but an error still pops up saying that they are required.

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keithmcclungeip 37 on at

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I have the same issue. I've found that by using the trigger "PowerApps V2" instead of "Manually trigger a flow" you can run the flow as a child without all the other fields being required. May not help you if you specifically need it to be manually triggered however.

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DaxjKent 110 on at

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Thanks for the suggestion. This is some super heavy modification in some flows when the variable from the trigger is used thru the entire flow.

Ideally Power Automate could just get their quality control working better and not inflict these random issues that cause massive mayhem and disruption in production environments.

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DaxjKent 110 on at

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I've had to resort to this in a pile of flows just to get them running again.

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joelzehring 208 on at

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We're also experiencing failed flows related to this issue.

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Community Power Pla... on at

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Microsoft support just came back to me and the solution they proposed is working now. What they proposed is that you have to remove the trigger of the childflow and add it back again.

Yes, I agree it's tedious because I am doing the same thing as well.

Please mark this as a solution if it works for you as well. Thanks!

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DaxjKent 110 on at

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Yes we were informed of this "solution" as well, but we will not be doing this due to the size of some of the flows infected.

Please keep in mind, in order to remove a trigger action, you must remove all references to that trigger action thru the entire flow. In larger flows this is essentially a complete dismantle and rebuild of what was previously a properly working flow. The old adage of "if it aint' broke, don't fix it" comes to mind. It was never the child flow that was the issue, it was the parent flow calling it. The fix needs to happen at the parent level in order for it to be considered resolved in my eyes.

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DaxjKent 110 on at

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I did just test this proposed fix on a smaller child flow, what is failed to be mentioned is that this proposal also requires you to modify ALL of the parent flows referencing the child flow as well since the "Run a child Flow" action is now passing variables to a child flow that are no longer being requested when you replace the trigger action in the child flow.

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