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Returning Null value from field with data

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Hi All,
 
I have had several very simple actions fail or have totally unexpected behavior. For example, I have a flow that takes a Product Inventory record, pulls several field values from there, and uses them to create a transfer product when that product inventory gets low. 
 
I have two flows that do the exact same thing, the only difference is that one flow runs on Sundays on half of our warehouses' product inventories, and the other runs on Tuesday on the other half.
 
I built the Sunday flow, tested it, and saw that it worked well. So, I duplicated it and just changed the day of the week that the flow runs. However, when the new flow runs, it pulls a Null field value from every single record it retrieves, even though the "List Rows" step that it is pulling this data from has a fetchXML that only includes records where this field has data. See screenshots for context (Null value returned, but value present in CRM). All other fields are retrieved correctly except a very crucial whole number field that comes through as null/blank.
 
I initially thought this may be caused by unwritten rules of solution objects but through my research I cannot find anything to support that theory. But this has made me feel like I am going crazy, because even when I rebuild the flow from scratch, it continues to pull a Null value even though I already have a flow that is pulling data from this same field with no problem. Has anyone experienced something like this or know how to fix it? Thanks so much for any insight on this!
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    Michael E. Gernaey Profile Picture
    53,351 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at
    Hi
     
    I am looking at what you typed. I don't believe it aligns with the pictures. In your pictures you are looking at the Shipped Quantity, which is null. Did you mean to look at what was shipped, or what was ordered?
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    20 on at
    Hi Mike,
     
    Thank you for taking a look at this. new_quantityshipped (Display Name is "Quantity") is the logical name of the field on the new record to be created. This field should populate with the new_orderquantityx (Display Name "Order Quantity (x)") value from the Product Inventory retrieved in the List Rows step.
     
    In my working flow, it does this with no issue. In this problem flow, it pulls a Null value from the new_orderquantityx field every single time, even though the FetchXML has already omitted any rows where this field is Null or 0. This false Null value is what the flow adds to new_quantityshipped field on the new row. The screenshots show that it should have pulled the value of 2 from this field and placed it where new_quantityshipped is Null.
     
    Basically if this field keeps mapping to the new row as Null instead of the value of new_orderquantityx, it renders the entire flow useless. Let me know if you need any further information!

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