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I am trying to configure a flow from Microsoft Forms to Power BI. I have this working ok, but when I add branching questions in Forms, I start receiving errors.
To explain further:
I essentially have a form containing a question with 3 options, A, B and C. If the user selects A, the branching rules open all the subsequent A questions, then hides all the subsequent B and C questions. Simialrly if B or C is selected.
I have a mixture of Text and Numerical answers, however the flow always fails when one of the subsequent B questions is set as a 'Number' response in Power BI's dataset and also one of the subsequent C questions set as a 'Number' response.
(Note there are no 'Number' format questions in the subsequent A questions. I also have the Historical Data Analysis setting 'on' as I require allot of answers to be stored for review)
A sample error is shown below:
I'm not trying to create a data type from one question/answer in the form that contains both text and numbers. The questions/answers are always distinct as either numbers or text. The problem is when I add the branching rules (hiding and showing specific questions depending which original option is chosen) to the microsoft form, the flow always fails due to questions left un-answered set as number format (in the power bi data set).
I have created another form/flow/power BI which has no branching rules, with questions containing numbers, also questions containing text and this has no problems. Therefore the issue appears to be when the branching rules are applied.
If I set all the question outputs to be text with the branching rules, then also no problem. However in Power BI the numbers are then in text format so I can't use various number features such as averaging etc.
Therefore the aim is to be able to have seperate questions with numeric answers, seperate questions with text answers (set in Power BI), and branching rules (created in Microsoft form), and have the flow work between them all.
Hi @SimpoPower ,
It seems the issue is about the FLOW, I'd suggest you post this issue in the Microsoft Flow Community forum for more professional help .
Best Regards,
Amy
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Hello Amy,
Yes tried this as well, but no luck so far. I'll keep plugging away to find a solution.
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