Question

Your company has five cloud flows that each need to perform the same sequence of Dataverse operations to validate and enrich an incoming customer record before further processing. You want to centralize this logic so it can be maintained in one place, invoked synchronously with input parameters, and return a result back to each calling flow. The centralized logic must also share a consistent error-handling and retry approach. What should you implement?

Accepted Answer

Create a child flow in a solution using the manually triggered flow trigger with input parameters and a 'Respond to a PowerApps or flow' action, then invoke it from each parent flow using the 'Run a Child Flow' action.

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Create a child flow in a solution using the 'When a HTTP request is received' trigger and call it from each parent flow with the HTTP action, passing parameters in the request body.

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Copy the validation and enrichment steps into each of the five flows so each runs independently without cross-flow dependencies.

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Create a Power Automate desktop flow with the shared logic and call it from each cloud flow using the desktop flow connector.