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Power Automate - Building Flows
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Server Backups Form And A Flow To Email Me When A Failure Is Chosen

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Posted on 21 Feb 2018 18:26:30 by 6

Hi,

 

I have a Form with 27 questions about server backups (a question for each backup).  The responses will be Yes, No, Complete With Exception and there's an Other field where I can put in notes.  This form allow multiple answers too.

 

I created a Flow for the first two questions on the Form and they worked great.  Simple conditions to email me when the answer doesn't contain 'Yes'.  I could answer either one individually and not get notified of the other since it was left blank.  

 

I thought I was ready to go down the line and do the other 25 flow conditions, but as soon as I added the third condition (named 'Iron', set up identical to the previous two), the flow started emailing me failures of the other two questions even though no answer was given. 

 

Again, it didn't do this with just the first two items.  So I'm hoping to get some assistance with how I should set this up.  A screenshot of my Flow is below.

 

Form Flow

 

Thanks in advance for your help!

 

 

Jerome

  • jeromep Profile Picture
    6 on 28 Feb 2018 at 16:28:36
    Re: Server Backups Form And A Flow To Email Me When A Failure Is Chosen

    Awesome.  That seemed to work for these first 3 items on my list, I'll keep going.  Thanks again Kris!

     

     

    Jerome

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    v-xida-msft Profile Picture
    on 28 Feb 2018 at 01:50:22
    Re: Server Backups Form And A Flow To Email Me When A Failure Is Chosen

    Hi @jeromep,

     

    Do you want to send failure emails to you when the answer doesn't contain 'Yes'?

     

    I think there is something wrong with the formula within your Condition box of your flow, even though, a specific answer is left blank, the Condition would return true, so the flow would go into "If/yes" branch of your Condition box. 

     

    You could consider take a try to modify your flow as below:2.JPG

     

    3.JPG

     

    Within Condition box, click "Edit in advanced mode", type the following formula:

     

    @or(contains(body('Get_response_details')?['r82c1bf4fcdf743c28a0b8d4fe354953b'], 'Yes'),empty(body('Get_response_details')?['r82c1bf4fcdf743c28a0b8d4fe354953b']))

    Note: The 'r82c1bf4fcdf743c28a0b8d4fe354953b' in above formula represents the answer to the question within my forms. You could get it with the following steps:

    1. Add a Condition, within left input box, type a answer to question dynamic content:4.JPG

     2. Then click "Edit in advanced mode", the answer to question would be converted into following formula:5.JPG

    Full Image reference:6.JPG

     

     

    Best regards,

    Kris

     

     

     

     

  • jeromep Profile Picture
    6 on 26 Feb 2018 at 17:43:45
    Re: Server Backups Form And A Flow To Email Me When A Failure Is Chosen

    Oh okay, apologies on that and thank you!

     

     

    Jerome

  • anhthuch4ng Profile Picture
    on 26 Feb 2018 at 17:03:53
    Re: Server Backups Form And A Flow To Email Me When A Failure Is Chosen

    Hi @jeromep,

     

    Thanks for posting to the Flow Forum!

    Since your question inquires about set up assistance, and as Flow Community Admin, I will move your thread to the General Flow Discussion Forum so more community members are likely to read and respond.

     

    Cheers,

    -AT (Flow Community Admin)

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