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Identifying the list entry that causes a Power Automate flow to fail

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Is there any way to identify what list entry caused a failure? Here's the backstory:

 

I have a Weekly Supervisor checklist (list) that is completed by various floor supervisors. There are fields to identify various action items and each action item should have a person assigned to complete the action items. All of this is documented in a SharePoint list. A Power Automate flow checks each Action Item and Assigned To field (there are 4) and sends a notification email to the Assigned To person. It's a simple flow.

 

The issue occurs when a supervisor fills in an Action Item field but does not complete the Assigned To field which causes the flow to fail. 

 

My question arises from when I try to identify which entry in the list caused the failure. For example: I know that the entry in question was created today but when I go to the list, I have three entries created today and roughly at the same time. Is there any way to make this identifiable in Power Automate so I don't have to go through each entry in list? Thank you.  

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    SudeepGhatakNZ Profile Picture
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    @Ann_DAS ,

     

    In your Power Automate history, you can include a column that displays additional information from your flow trigger.

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    Thanks for the quick response.

     

    When looking at the 28-day History of the flow, the Edit columns option allows me to select the identifier columns. This works really well for list flows. For library flows you will have to select "Entity".

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