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Flow unable to handle null response from Forms into Power BI

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I have been using Flow to populate data from Forms into Power BI. It works great for my standard Form templates, but I have a new Form template that uses branching. This branching has caused Flow to fail because it registers a null response from Forms.

I'm using the following Flow expression to get the response details from Forms:

first(triggerBody()?['value'])?['resourceData']?['responseId']

I have no idea what this expression means as I copied it from a tutorial I watched to get Flow working. The error message I'm getting says the following:

Unable to process template language expressions in action 'Get_response_details' inputs at line '1' and column '2005': 'The template language function 'first' expects its parameter be an array or a string. The provided value is of type 'Null'.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Re: Flow unable to handle null response from Forms into Power BI

Perfect, Alice! Flow is working for me now. Thanks!!
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Re: Flow unable to handle null response from Forms into Power BI

Thanks for the advice, but I am using the Get response details action. The issue is that the expression I'm using in this action can't manage instances of null response that is attributed to branching in Forms.
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Re: Flow unable to handle null response from Forms into Power BI

Hi @Anonymous ,

Please refer to screenshot below to create the flow:

And the expression should as below:

triggerBody()?['resourceData']?['responseId']

Best regards,

Alice

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Re: Flow unable to handle null response from Forms into Power BI

@Anonymous why don't you just use the Get response details action instead? That should always be the first action after the When a new response is submitted trigger.

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