Planner Flow, no Powerapp: Could not retrieve values. Insufficient privileges to complete the operation

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Posted on by DanHu

I try to use Flows to create a list of Planner tasks.

I am not using PowerApps, I just want to trigger the flow manually from the portal from time to time.

When I use a predefined flow template (i.e. "Post messages to Microsoft Teams when a new task is created in Planner"), I can select the "Plan Id" in the Flow GUI. It will show all my available plans.

When I create a new flow and not use any template, selecting Planner and then "List tasks", I am asked for the "Group Id" and the "Plan Id". However, now the pulldown menu is not populated with my existing Plans.

Instead I get "Could not retrieve values. Insufficient privileges to complete the operation".

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Do I miss something here?

How do I teach Planner or Flows to find the Group Id's and the Plan Id's?

Thanks

Dan

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RezaDorrani 12,143 on at

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Hi @DanHu

The lists tasks action only lists the tasks for a particular group
I believe it only lists the plans where you are the group/team owner

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Reza Dorrani

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DanHu 13 on at

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I am the owner/creator of all plans..

Other example below: Left side, I use a template, right side I try to recreate the same template from scratch..

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v-litu-msft on at

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Hi @DanHu ,

If you use the trigger "When a new task is created" created by yourself, but can't extract the Group Id and Plan Id, you can input them manually. Please have a reference as below:

By the way, you can get the Group Id and Plan Id through entering plan task board, and get them in the link:
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Community Support Team _ Lin Tu
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apa 45 on at

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While manually looking for a Plan Id and a Group Id is a workaround, the dropdowns should, in my opinion, show Group Id values automatically. I'm also struggling with these new Planner triggers.

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DanHu 13 on at

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@v-litu-msft , thanks, that helped.

Yet, I agree with @anttipajunen . The dropdowns should show the Group Id's and the available Plan Id's.

@v-litu-msft, what you pointed out is a good workaround. But can you confirm that the dropdowns should work? And can you point us to a final solution that works as expected (without having to use yor workaround)?
Or is this a bug?

Thanks
Dan

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RezaDorrani 12,143 on at

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Hi @DanHu @anttipajunen @v-litu-msft

The dropdowns do work in 1 of my tenants but not in the other
Has to be some sort of bug

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DanHu 13 on at

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What is strange: When I use one of the templates, the dropdown always works.
When I create a flow from scratch, the dropdown never works.
Can you confirm?
Dan

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ATPolar 7 on at

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I am also seeing this issue.

If i manually create a flow to create a planner task on a recurring monthly basis i cannot automatically populate the Group ID or Plan ID.

When i try to do the same thing using a template flow, both of these dropdowns populate automatically.

Is there some kind of weird permissions thing or can it just not connect to the Office 365 groups correctly?

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DanHu 13 on at

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@ATPolar thanks for confirming the same issue.

I'm hoping that @v-litu-msft could help with an explanation.

Dan

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Hirofumi_Ota 2 on at

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I have same problem.
I think that this problem occurs at sign-in as Company Administrator.

Is this new limitations?

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