Power Automate Child Flow using Solution Packages 

The biggest issues I had researching this, you answered for me. 10:40 "Now what's important to understand is this "Run child flow". This doesn't show up unless you are in a solution." 1:54 "And so what we need to do in order take advantage of these Child Flows is you have to build inside a Solution. [...] The idea of solutions is that they are like these little packages, little compartmentalized functionality." 4:00 "Your child is going to be an instant flow and we have to choose manual trigger flow." 4:35 "Also keep in mind as you're building child flows and parent flows, they both have to be in the same solution."

One day, I will learn that before trying ANYTHING new in Power Apps or Power Automate, I will look for a video from you Shane, and watch it first. You answered all my questions about Child Flows and why they weren't working. Thank you for the service you provide to us other geeks.

Thanks so much! I would love to see a video that goes into more detail about solutions

Shane it's incredible how much I already learned from your videos and it's always fun to watch too. We can be glad that you are sharing so much content with the community. Big thanks!

Thanks Shane, I keep on seeing your videos. Sometimes i get the answer and Sometimes I get stuck. However, your videos gives me right direction and approach. Thanks for efforts, suggestions and teachings.

Thanks for this great content, all tricks we're covered. Cheers

Thank you so much for this video. I got to this video after a year from its publish date. I got here...

Thank you for the video explanations and the tips in having the respond at the beginning of the 'child flow'

thx Shane... That short, but pointed out - that those 3 items needed to be done before you create the parent saved me - this was actually the only place where i found this documented...

Another great video. I picked up a few pointers for future use. Thanks for sharing, Shane

Great video as always, Shane. You are my top of mind Power Platform RU-vid channel when someone asks me for a place where he/she can learn more about these Microsoft tools. Thanks

Another great video! I cheated however by watching the video and avoiding the mistakes. Ran like a Champ!

OMG! you have just saved my day with that trick. I was thinking that the respond step would exit the child flow. I am delightfully surprised of this behaviour.

Thank you. This helped build the solution I was looking for.

Thanks for this knowledge shared. New knowledge gained

Hi Shane I really like the trick to put the response to the beginning. I hope I will remember in the future when I need it ;-)

amazing explanation!

Shane you're the man

Well Explained , Thanks !

thanks for the info i was struggling with the connection error now its ok after i did the third action

Nice 👌. Thank you.

Awesome videos as usual

Hi Shane. Great video and actually to the point of my problem. I was asked to create (at first) a power automate that read an excel sheet (up to 10000 rows) which has an email column (actually a line of display names needed to be converted to real email address). Using the List rows present in a table action I though I could benefit using child flow to send out email for each row from the parent flow taking advantage of the parallelism. That was a nice idea. But one issue came up, sending these emails must be able to send from a distribution group in the send as field in the Send Email v2 action saying sending on behalf of the person that runs the flow. As you said, that would be the connection owner in the flow. Then somebody told me that I could overcome this by using a power app that calls the parent automate flow. That would solve this. I guess you are familiar with this though. I tried it and it worked on the parent flow, but not in the child flow where the emails are being sent. Do you have a suggestion how I can solve this so the mail saying: on behalf of . By now I am always the sender on behalf of, even though other is actually running the power app calling the parent flow which runs all child flows. And a second question, in your video where you show how to open and select an excel file, can I create a collection directly in power app or do I need to use a power automate flow and get back a json array or something? Again thanks for you videos I learn a lot from you Regards Geir

your awesome, thanks

For flows you'd like to break up as they would be beneficial across multiple "solutions", what would the best strategy be for those?

hello Shane, I really like your youtube videos and they are very helpful in coming up with solutions with PowerApps. when building I keep noticing that the font, and default settings for height and width of the fields don't match what I want, so in many places this means adjusting these settings. Is there a more convenient way to do this? Could you make a video about that too? thanks in advance!

Thanks Shane for that video! I tried it for a MS Teams flow, but I cannot add it to a solution. Or vice versa, a cloud flow with a Teams trigger created within a solution cannot be "seen"/accessed within MS Teams. Any ideas?

Could the sequential execution problem be solved by turning on Concurrency Control in the Apply to Each?

Thanks. Do you think a child flow in a solution could be used to get a user input (eg keyboard) while iterating within the main flow? Child flow would begin with Inputs. I.'m trying, but I may miss something or completly chasing a ghost...

This is like respond to a PowerApp in a way. Can the parent recieve stuff back from the child flow?

Hey Shane, what happens if you want to use Pipelines for deployment? If in one Environment>Solution we have the Parent flow calling a Child flow and then you opt to deploy to the next Environment - the Parent flow in the next environment will be referencing the previous environment child flow. Can we store the Child flow as an environment variable maybe?

How do i set up a failed child flow? Meaning, the child flow fails for whatever reason, how can i send a response to the parent that the flow failed and it should therefore do another action?

Hi Shane, thanks for this amazing video you really helping us improve everyday. Just a question: Is it possible to extract Polly responses on Teams and send them to a SharePoint list using Power Automate, can you please suggest some logic if there's a way to achieve this. Thank you

If you're using a solution, would you always use a child flow, or are there cases where you would use a flow with an http trigger and call that from the main flow? Pros/cons? Child flow is a little easier to pass parameters, maybe, although I imagine you could pass a JSON payload either way. And with the HTTP trigger, you don't have to change from run-only user to hard-coded connection.

Hey very nice and helpful video, really appreciate your work and if possible could you help me in storing this result received from emails in excel or Dataverse or any data source.

but why does a child flow have to be a manual trigger? surely this is meant to be an automated process based on a trigger?

Need your expert help on this Creating a search query with contains operation in "Get emails" action in power automate. Like : Subject:contains('subject','abc') with multiple conditions I tried number of combinations it won't work Exact match will work subject:'abc' Need to use like/contains operation for filtering the e-mails based on subjects. Assistance required.

Hi shane, ive been getting “Connection not configured in this service” error on my flows in dev. But when i imported that solution to a production envi, the flows were working there. Any idea on how to fix this? :(

I created flows from my power app. But I can't add them to solution and so can't use child flow? User error or by design? Thanks.

Great video Shane! Q… are there decision criteria I should follow as to when to use a solution for Power Automate and when not to use a solution? By default I never use PA Solutions, but maybe I should actually be doing that??

Shane useful video as always, but one comment. This probably seemed like a separate topic at the time, but I feel like this video would have been FAR more valuable if you covered how to fire off child flows asynchronously - not requiring the child flow to return a value EARLY ON.

Why I dont have a 'Run-only-users' option?

11:18 typooooooooo, was supposed to be CHILD flow (instead of CLOUD flow). However, you are right, it is NOT going to show up even if you type child flow :).

Is it still possible to do this? I have been looking for the 'Run a Child Flow' option but cannot find it 😟

Very cool. That Standard license requirement kind of sucks, but hey, what can ya do?

Please please please please do a video on Figma!!!!

Hello

Power automate is extremely powerful in terms of integrations but so clunky in documentation and terrible to dev. It's the best and the worst. Microsoft being Microsoft.