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How to: not to get stuck on the required fields when creating a Power Automate Flow

ashlega Profile Picture ashlega 34,477

Microsoft Dataverse has a somewhat unique interpretation of what a “required” field is.

It’s a bit of “do as I say not as I do”.

For example, I can’t create an account in the user interface not having “account name” populated (since it’s a required field):

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But, of course, behind the scene… whether through Excel import or through API, for instance… I can still clear those required fields:

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That’s always been like this, but, now, how do we bypass “required field” validation when creating a record through Power Automate Flow? Sometimes, there is no field value I can populate through the automation.

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That was bugging me for a while till I tried using “null” for such fields. Not sure what hit me this time, and why did not I do it before, but it worked right away:

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Well, that will save me some troubles moving forwardSmile


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