Calling a flow with Get Flow Not Working

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Posted on by Nerf_Herder

Hi everyone,

I'm new here and relatively new to Power Automate.

I'm trying to call a flow from within an approvals flow using Get Flow. The called flow works fine when tested independently, but when I use the Get Flow function in my main flow, it doesn't do anything at all.

The Environment and Flow fields are pointed to the correct place, so I've done something wrong/missed something.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Can you post a screenshot of what the flow setup looks like?

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Nerf_Herder 7 on at

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I've added the screenshot to the original post.

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For cloud flows, there isn't a native action for "Run Flow".

This can be done either by using solutions and creating parent/child flows or by using HTTP requests.

The "Get Flow" action only gets information about the selected flow, it doesn't run it. Hence why it seems not to do anything when its called in the flow.

This product update post from Microsoft is a little older, but gives a general overview of this:
October Updates for Microsoft Flow | Power Automate Blog

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Nerf_Herder 7 on at

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Thanks for your help. I managed to get it running, but I think it was by pure luck, as I couldn't tell you what I did!

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