Tag: Azure Logic App

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Iterate Over the Results of an Azure SQL Stored Procedure in an Azure Logic App

Introduction

If you need to quickly create a business workflow or other B2B integration, look no further then Azure Logic Apps. Azure Logic Apps is a cloud based workflow and integration service. With the multitude of built in connectors you can easily automate many common business workflows. The Azure SQL Database connector and execute stored procedure action were of interest to me when I needed to implement an automated email notification. The output of a stored procedure from a source system would provide me a list of users who would receive reminder emails. Azure Logic Apps provides the capability of iterating over results of an action, however iterating over the results of a stored procedure is not as straight forward as some of the other examples. In this post I am going to use the automating email notifications example to illustrate what I needed to do to iterate over the results of a stored procedure. Continue reading “Iterate Over the Results of an Azure SQL Stored Procedure in an Azure Logic App”

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Resolving InvalidTemplate Error Running Azure Logic App Manually (Run Now)

Problem

Recently I have been testing out Azure Logic Apps as a possible tool for enterprise application data synchronization.  The first example I spiked out was to pull newly entered data from a table in an Azure SQL Database and push it into a Salesforce object.  This is a pretty common example and extremely easy to implement with an Azure Logic App.  My scenario included a Microsoft SQL Connector to my Azure SQL Database with a polling query, set to execute every hour.  I added a Salesforce Connector mapping the database fields to the custom object defined in Salesforce.  Very basic logic app, with a sql trigger and create action on the Salesforce Connector.  The next step was to test this out to see if it worked, I could have waited the hour execution interval, but I noticed a Run Now button on the main logic app blade.

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Every time I clicked the Run Now button for the logic app I received the following error:

{"code":"InvalidTemplate","message":"Unable to process template language expressions in action 'salesforceconnector' inputs at line '1' and column '11': 'Template language expression cannot be evaluated: the property 'outputs' cannot be selected.'."}

Solution

The solution here is pretty simple, when you have a logic app with a trigger defined, DO NOT click the Run Now button.  If you would like to run the logic app manually you will notice the first tile that comes up has a check box to do just that.

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I never even noticed this option until I ran into this issue.  Use this option if you need manual control over the logic app execution.

Note: As of this writing I do know the logic app designer is getting a major overhaul in the coming weeks.  I will do my best to update this post once those new bits become available.  Watch this to see a demo of what is coming.