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Power Automate - Building Flows
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Power Automate changes a variable whenever I save

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Posted on 4 Jan 2021 14:58:08 by

Hi there,

 

I have created a pretty basic flow which deals with several approval scenarios based on authors/approvers. It's triggered manually from a SharePoint document library.

Basically it's an array variable which I append to with the emails of the authors taken from a 'get file properties' step. Authors and Approvers are multi value people pickers. In the Append to array variable step I select 'Authors Email' from the 'Get file properties':

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The second I save or make a change - say to the name of the step - and press return it swaps the variable out for the Approvers Email variable:

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I have tried rebuilding it and no difference. Nothing seems off in the list.. any ideas why this is happening?

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  • tom_riha Profile Picture
    10,149 Most Valuable Professional on 04 Jan 2021 at 19:01:07
    Re: Power Automate changes a variable whenever I save

    Hello @cptasker ,

    when you hover on the dynamic content, what does it show in the description? If it's the correct dynamic content (contains the correct 'Apply to each' action in the brackets) then it shouldn't matter what text it displays, it should work. Although I have no idea why it would display a different name.

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