How To Send An Array To A Parent Or Child Flow?

I go over how to send an array from a parent flow to a child flow using inputs / parameters - as well as how to send an array from a child flow to a parent flow.

Some questions I answer in this video:
- How to send an array of data from a parent flow to a child flow?
- How to send an array of data from a child flow to a parent flow?
- How to filter an array in Power Automate?
- How to select an array in Power Automate?

00:00 Intro
00:11 How to send an array to a child flow
03:12 How to send an array to a parent flow
05:57 Outro

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[ragentile]

I needed to figure out how to return an array to the parent and this video quickly explained how to do that. Thanks for sharing the knowledge!

[edmarveras]

Excelent video, I was breaking my head trying to get object variables back to the parent flow and Power automate time and again was trying to convert the data and messing up the results. I didn´t find any documentation indicating this solution.
You saved my week.
Cheers!!!

[mupton]

Thanks for the informative video.

One alternative to using the premium Response connector is to first convert your array/JSON to base64 then convert it back to JSON after it's passed back to the parent.
* Compose step in Child Expression:
* Compose step in Parent Expression: json(base64tostring("Output from Child Flow"))

[Tony_Suslovich]

Nice one mate. I spent about an hour trying to figure out how to pass an object/array back to a parent flow. You probably saved me a few hours of banging my head against the wall. Thanks!

[ishthaish]

Bro best ever video for power automate . Love the way you explain in such detail and with such simplicity, thanks

[ImGumby]

Hello and thanks for the process. I am new to much of this so I have a few questions.

I have a Flow that generates an output of employees that have entered information into a SharePoint list. This Flow output is based on records meeting a specific date period. The Get Items contains multiple records by employee which then also identifies duplicate supervisor values. I have run the COMPOSE (Union), Apply To Each, Filter Array, Create HTML Table and Send Email so that My issue is that I want the table to identify the employees by Supervisor and the related count of records completed the employee.

Question 1: Is this an instance where a Parent and Child Flow would be appropriate.

Parent Flow - Output Array of records by Supervisor
Child Flow - Calculate/identify the number of records entered by the employee

Question 2: If yes to Question 1, Should I Create the HTML Table, modify using CSS and Send the Email from the Child Flow or pass info back to the Parent Flow and then run the Create the HTML Table, modify using CSS and Send the Email?

Any assistance would be appreciated.

[kangqiaozhao]

Why I don't have run child flow (from FLOWS). But only "Turn On Flow" (from Power automate").