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Posted on by EshuNet

I was testing  Instant cloud flow automation using sharepoint as data source,but it turns out to be :

 

[ The variable 'varApproversEmailsArray' of type 'Array' cannot be initialized or updated with value of type 'Object'. The variable 'varApproversEmailsArray' only supports values of types 'Array'.]

 

Quite contrary to the error message, data type used is 'array' instead of 'object'. Any help is appreciated! 

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    WillPage 2,339 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    You are putting an initial value in the Initialize variable action that is not an array. You have not given any screen shots or example of what you're actually trying to do so nobody can help much more than just repeating what your error message says.

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