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Tracked Properties in Power Automate Flow Step

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If you are new to Power Automate and are wondering how Tracked Properties are and how they work?

Tracked Properties are data properties which are hidden away from the Input/Output sections of the Flow and which you can explicitly retrieve in a Flow Run.

Here’s a post to explain the same!

Tracked Properties

Below are what Tracked Properties are –

  1. If you look at the Settings section of different Actions, you’ll see Tracked Properties.

  2. And you’ll see Tracked Properties at the bottom once all Action specific Settings are listed.

  3. Here, you can create and store your own properties and it’s value. It’s value could also be results of preceding steps or from expressions.
    See example below –

  4. Once you create these Properties, here’s how you can retrieve the same.

Retrieving Tracked Properties

Here’s how you can retrieve Tracked Properties –

  1. You need to address using actions() method in Power Automate to read Tracked Properties of a certain step.
    Hence, the syntax is “action('<stepname>')?['TrackedProperties']“

  2. You can store it in an Object variable and see the result as below

  3. Or, if you want to retrieve only a specific property, you can mention the same in the expressions itself.


  4. And it’ll show up like this (In anything stores Integer / String)

Hope this helps!

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Thank you!

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Get Display Name of the current Flow in Power Automate

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If you are working on complex Flows and need to identify which Flow a certain operation is being performed from –

Example, you are working on some Account Processing Flow you designed for Dataverse tables and there are several Flows for the Account table, but you want to start logging errors from different Flows for developer reference.

workflow() function

Here’s how you can use the workflow() function in Power Automate Flow to get the name of the current Flow –

  1. Here’s the name of the Flow which we are intending to get in the Flow run itself.


  2. In this example, I’m initializing a variable of type String to Demonstrate this

  3. Now, you have workflow() function in the Expressions area in Dynamic Content in your Flow step.

  4. Once you select the workflow() function, you can continue to type in even though you are not seeing auto-complete options. Type .tags.flowDisplayName further as shown below

  5. And click OK, make sure by hovering that the expressions is added.

  6. And when you Run the Flow to test, you can get the Name of the Flow itself.

  7. Also, you can get the other properties from the workflow() function as well. Here’s an example when you just use workflow() function and see the results –

Hope this was useful!

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  2. Select values from an array using Select action in a Power Automate Flow
  3. Blocking Attachment Extensions in Dynamics 365 CRM
  4. Upgrade Dataverse for Teams Environment to Dataverse Environment
  5. Showing Sandbox or Non Production Apps in Power App mobile app
  6. Create a Power Apps Per User Plan Trial | Dataverse environment
  7. Install On-Premise Gateway from Power Automate or Power Apps | Power Platform
  8. Co-presence in Power Automate | Multiple users working on a Flow
  9. Search Rows (preview) Action in Dataverse connector in a Flow | Power Automate
  10. Suppress Workflow Header Information while sending back HTTP Response in a Flow | Power Automate
  11. Call a Flow from Canvas Power App and get back response | Power Platform\
  12. FetchXML Aggregation in a Flow using CDS (Current Environment) connector | Power Automate
  13. Parsing Outputs of a List Rows action using Parse JSON in a Flow | Common Data Service (CE) connector
  14. Asynchronous HTTP Response from a Flow | Power Automate
  15. Validate JSON Schema for HTTP Request trigger in a Flow and send Response | Power Automate
  16. Converting JSON to XML and XML to JSON in a Flow | Power Automate

Thank you!