Hello,
I am one of three developers on a new project, new to Power Automate. I am stuck on getting the Actions in the App designer to find my flow, which is in my solution. It fills fields from a Dataverse table onto a fancy Word doc. I have read that this is a binding issue. I am afraid that we are missing a setting or something. In this picture, I should be able to see my flow under Action, but I just see JavaScript and Function. I am able to successfully run the flow and fill in the Word doc outside of Dataverse.
Would be grateful for someone to get in a screenshare and help trouble-shoot. We are all too new at this to understand how to fix it.
Thank you!
Hi @Felice_Marcus
This is a solution binding + trigger scope issue. The flow works standalone because it’s not bound to a specific row context yet. In the app designer, it only shows actions that can operate on table rows.
Quick questions: Is the flow published after being added to the solution? And what trigger are you using, Cloud Flow with row context, or something else? Also, what’s the table structure? Are you filtering on a specific lookup field when pulling data?
Once I know those details, I can tell you exactly what’s missing.
Hi Hardik,
I am thrilled that you responded to me so quickly! I just registered for the forum this morning, and after looking at the conversations, I saw how helpful you’d been to people.
Yes, that is what I understood by reading online, it is a trigger scope issue, but I don’t know how to resolve it. Here are the answers to your questions:
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I created the flow and then I added it to my Solution. Yes, I had published it already (and I just did that for good measure now). I create it in Power Automate and then added the flow to my Solution. That interface is more appealing to me. But is it better to always start in the Solution and create a new flow from there?
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The only trigger that I found that comes close to what I need, which is not completely accurate, is “when a row is selected”. I want it to fire when the user clicks on a button in a subgrid and from that a Word merge will happen (Populate a Word Template). I want to put in some conditions, so it’s not really when a row is selected, it’s when a button is clicked. But I didn’t see other triggers to pull fields from Dataverse.
Here is the app designer:
I want to do a Word merge with a lot of the fields a subgrid, which is from an entity called Orders, on the rows that are selected, and when the “status” field is “completed”.
Thank you for your guidance!
And here is the view in the app:
Hi @Felice_Marcus
Got it. I see the issue now.
You’re using the “When a row is selected” trigger, but that won’t show up as an action in the app designer. You need “When an action is performed” instead. That’s the trigger type that Model-Driven Apps recognizes.
Quick fix:
- Create a new Automated Cloud Flow
- Pick trigger: “When an action is performed.”
- Set it for the Orders table
- Add your condition: Status = “Completed”
- Add the Word merge action
- Publish and add to solution
That should make it appear in your actions dropdown.
On creating flows in the solution first: Yes, always better to start in the solution. Avoids binding issues later.
Give this a try and let me know how it goes. Since you three are new to this, I’m happy to help you get it working. If you hit another wall, just let me know, we’ll figure it out together.
Good luck!
Hi @Hardik_Gupta ,
I have followed those steps and I hit another wall. The action doesn’t show up on my list. Can you please advise on what to do next?
Hi @Felice_Marcus
Kindly have a look at your inbox.
