Run Flow (nested execution)

Runs a Flow and awaits its completion before continuing.

Use this action if you want to run a Flow within another Flow. The main Flow will continue execution after the child Flow has completed. If a value is returned from the child Flow, it can be used in the main Flow.

If you need to start a Flow inside another Flow that ontinues without waiting for its completion, use Start Flow action instead.

Properties

Name	Type	Description
Flow	Required	The Flow to run. You can only run Flows from the same Workspace. If you need to run a Flow in a different Workspace, you can use a HTTP request action.
Input	Optional	The argument to pass to the Flow you want to run.
Output data type	Optional	Specifies the data type of the value returned by the selected Flow. You must specify the data type if you want to use the returned value as input data to other actions in the main Flow. If you don't, the main Flow will assume that the data type is System.Object, which will prevent you from using the returned value as input to most actions. If the selected Flow returns a custom data type, you must toggle Use custom type(s) on, and specify the type definition(s) of the custom objects. The easiest way to get the custom type definitions is to open the selected Flow and copy the configuration of the custom types from there.
Output variable name	Required	The name of the variable that contains the value returned value (if any) from the selected Flow.

Example

How to use the Run Flow action is demonstrated in the nested execution topic.