I have a scheduled cloud flow that should run every 3 months. for each run I want to send a different e-mail.
with the compose function I create an number output value for the month (december = 12).
with the "switch" and "case" function , if the value equals 12 I send an e-mail. when I add those 2 functions and I try to save my flow, I always get this error message:
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don't know what's wrong here, any help please. I can setup this flow with multiple "condition" actions and this works. Don't know why the "switch" function is failing.
