Passing values from Power Automate to Bot Variables

[Jondoesflow]

Hi all,

I have some bot variables that I want to set to null at the start of a topic, then later on in the topic I will ask the customer if they want to populate that information. If they don't I want to pass the previously stored null value to a Power Automate cloud flow.  If they answer the question, then that value gets stored.

My problem is that I can't get power automate to set the null values to the bot variables, and so it will reroute back to the topic where bot variables are stored and ask for that information again.

Thanks.

[renatoromao]

Hi @Jondoesflow ,

It's not available yet.

You can vote on this idea here: Allow PVA to send 'NULL' values to Power Automate - Power Platform Community (microsoft.com)

[Jondoesflow]

Hi,

It's not even the fact I want to send a null.

It could be anything, I just want the ability the update a variable from a Power Automate flow (the value could be n/a or false) and then save that variable value to the bot variable, unless it gets updated by the user inside the conversational flow.

[renatoromao]

@Jondoesflow ,

Got it!

Unfortunately, there are many ideas from the Microsoft community that are not available yet. You can vote in all of them and we will keep you posted.

-> Allow Flow response messages to overwrite their ow... - Power Platform Community (microsoft.com)

-> Change the value of a variable without a question - Power Platform Community (microsoft.com)

[Jondoesflow]

Wow. Ok. Are there any work arounds?