We all like useful error messages. How about the [REDACTED] Message when you turn on a flow? In this post you will find the steps to fix this issue.
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Today I came across this error twice. In both cases I got the [REDACTED] message when I tried to turn a flow on from the flow’s detail screen
There are however other places to turn on a flow and they give a better error message. This is however where I got different messages for each of my clients:
Turn on failed. Flow client error returned with status code “BadRequest” and details “XrmEnvironmentVariableAttributeNotFound”.
In the other situation I got this
Turn on failed. Flow client error returned with status code “BadRequest” and details “InvalidOpenApiFlow”.
So it looks like there are two problem here that both give the [REDACTED] error in the flow details.
… and how to fix it
The problem in both cases was the same. When I reproduced the issue in my own test environment, I managed to reproduce the issue quite quickly. Hopefully this will help someone else too.
Somehow the list value had been cleared and my flow that triggered on a document library would fail to resolve a list or library because of this. Once the variable was set again the flow turned on successfully.
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I had this message yesterday but it was in an agent flow. I had made a mistake in the syntax of a filter array step, and the flow saved without any issues, but then gave me the Redacted error on publish.
I have the feeling that it is related to some recent updates
Where did you find other places to turn on a flow and they give a better error message?
There are two places to turn on a flow. 1. The flow details screen and 2. The flow context menu within the solution or my flows section.