An unexpected exception encountered when evaluating branching condition.

[Chicko29]

I am trying to run a very simple flow. But I ge tthis error and I do not know why.

"The execution of template action 'Update_item' failed: an unexpected exception encountered when evaluating branching condition."

[Pieter_Veenstra]

Can you open up the Udpate item actions in your a screen shots for both edit mode and run mode?

[chadhap]

Were you able to resolve this issue? If yes, what was the resolution.

[Anonymous]

Dear all,

I also have the same issue.

Can you advise?

I try to attach screen shot but unable to

@Pieter_Veenstra

[colechris]

Dear all, I have also ran into this issue. If a solution is out there it would be great to see in this thread.

Thanks

[Cologne_Claret · Accepted solution]

I ran into the same problem this week and managed to resolve.

I have a flow where I have a response from an approval mail where the response can be a 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 when I hit the respective button.

Switch recognises the 5, which I configured for testing to send a mail, but it failed with the above branching error message when trying to perform the actions under the Switch "Response Equals 5".

The problem appears to be that the numeric value should in fact be a string. If you change the e.g. Equals 5 to Equals "5", then it works.

Hope this helps. 🙂

[boro]

This worked. Thank you!

[David_Kim_1980]

The solution was "5" not 5. it works. really thank you.

[imannej]

Hi, I have a choice column and my value is 5060 when I change it to "5060" in the branch I get this error :

Flow save failed with code 'InvalidTemplate' and the message 'The template validation failed: 'The template action 'Switch' at line '1' and column '2699' is not valid: the expressions specified for 'case' properties in switch cases evaluate to values of different types 'String, Integer'. Expressions in case properties should evaluate to values of the same type.'.'

[JayBabcock]

Using the quotation marks didn't work for me.  Instead, I fixed this by adding a Compose action just before my switch. (NOTE: I am using the mandated title field to contain an integer which is our manufacturing line number that I want to evaluate in the switch).  Since the field has to be a "single line of text" format I cannot change it to an integer in the filed settings.  I can change the visual label of the field to Line, but not the true field name.

The expression in the Inputs field is:

int(triggerOutputs()?['body/Title'])