Run Child Flow - Workflow Reference Name not found

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Posted on by santoGD

Hi All,

In my power automate flows, from today, run a child flow always shows error:

'Failed to retrieve dynamic inputs. Error details: 'Parameter "workflowReferenceName" cannot be found for this operation'

This error is showing for all automate flows and all run a child flow component. Also, for my other team mates too, the same error is showing.

What can be the cause of this issue?All the child flows are still there. Please advise

These Flows are available from last 5-6 months and we never seen any error like this and we havenot changed anything.

Thanks

Santo

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CFernandes 8,402 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Can you switch to the Old Editor and see if you can reproduce the problem. Check if the connection is correct?

If you are using manual flow, connections are configured as "provided by run only user" so you need to provide fixed connections for all of those connectors.

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PB-14101904-0 2 on at

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I too am seeing the same issue over the past 3 days with this message in my flows

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santoGD 58 on at

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I have checked with Old designer and not seeing any issues with 'Run a child flow' component.

Regarding:

If you are using manual flow, connections are configured as "provided by run only user" so you need to provide fixed connections for all of those connectors.

we are using Service principal user for last 6 months . No issues happened till yesterday for child flow calls.

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HC Sol 30 on at

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Hi All

I am geting this to, i have just upgradeed a List and updated my Enviroment Variable to that point to the New List version.

All of my flows that call Manual Triggered flows wont work with "Error details: 'Parameter "workflowReferenceName"".

Note that the actual Manual triggered flows seem to test fine. And i have checked the "Run only users" on all of them.

So im not sure at all what is going on.

Anyone got to the bottom of this?

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HC Sol 30 on at

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UPDATE: But no fix, only diagnosis

After investigating it all seems to be centered around the 'Run a child' action. When a My list triggers I attempt to 'Run_a_Child_Flow-_RefGenV2' and I get the following error that my action requires a 'Object' .

Action 'Run_a_Child_Flow-_RefGenV2' failed: The input body for trigger 'manual' of type 'Request' did not match its schema definition. Error details: 'Invalid type. Expected Object but got Integer.'

The Co-Pilot response is:

But this is BS because my manual child flow calls for an Integer ID, always has, always will.

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Kinson-Lam (WCC) 36 on at

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I have exactly the same error when opening the flow in New Designer but not in the old designer.

However, my flow is within a Solution, it has to be using New designer.

Any solution yet?

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HC Sol 30 on at

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Most of my Manual triggered flows have a power apps 'Respond to a Power App or Flow' action.

Dont know if this is not working beacuse the manual actions work them selves. Its the result being passed back that is the issue.

Is anyone else seeing this?

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LS-16100948-0 3 on at

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We are having the same issue.

Old flows, that have not been touched in weeks, work perfectly fine, while new flows, get the following error when we try to run them:

Edit: Turns out this was a non-related issue but we are still getting this message:

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