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Power Automate "Select Action" erasing my custom map whenever I open the flow

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Recently, starting around the end of august, any time a build a new flow or go into an existing flow that uses the "select" action, if I have a custom map in that action, the map is erased and replaced with an empty JSON object.

 

As an example, if I have a "select" action with the map " item()?['field1'] ", it will be replaced with the below JSON:

{

   "": ""

}

 

This is incredibly frustrating - all of my select maps are wiped out every time I go into a flow. I have to reset them one by one, and save, then exit the flow as the last thing I do, because if the actions are minimized, the content is erased again. Unrelated actions collapse/minimize frequently when adding a new action or deleting actions, so this means if I'm editing the flow its almost guaranteed to completely erase any custom maps I have unless I reset them as the last thing I do before saving then leave the editor.

 

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Was there some change/update pushed by MS that is causing this?

 

 

 

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    Ellis Karim 10,527 on at
    Re: Power Automate "Select Action" erasing my custom map whenever I open the flow

    There doesn't seem to be a specific contact for feedback other than the Power Automate forums:

     

    Enable experimental features in Power Automate - Power Automate | Microsoft Learn

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    I've tagged this message as "experimental features".


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    gregorymaicher 9 on at
    Re: Power Automate "Select Action" erasing my custom map whenever I open the flow

    Confirmed everything works without issue with experimental features turned off. Silly of me to not check that first.

     

    So who do I flag this too at MS? Presumably there is some experimental feature related to the select action that has an unintended consequence that they would want to know about before pushing to stable release.

  • Ellis Karim Profile Picture
    Ellis Karim 10,527 on at
    Re: Power Automate "Select Action" erasing my custom map whenever I open the flow

    Hi @gregorymaicher ,

     

    If you turn off Power Automate experimental features do you still get the same issues?

     

    Ellis

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