How to Call a Flow from Another Flow in Power Automate?

While working on a Student Training Power Automate flow, I created two flows: one for creating a student profile in SharePoint and another for managing the sending of training materials. I want the profile creation flow to run first, followed by the training materials flow. I learned that this can be achieved by calling one flow from another. Now, I want to share this method with you.

Call a Flow from Another Flow in Power Automate

When we have a complex flow, we want it to break down into one, two, or more as per the requirement we use to call a flow from another flow in Power Automate.

Let’s see, with the help of a flow, when an employee submits an expense reimbursement request in SharePoint List, then sends an email that your reimbursement has been successfully submitted.

So, for this, we will create two flows:

• Parent Flow: This flow triggers when an item is created in the SharePoint list.
• Child Flow: This flow triggers when an HTTP request is received.

Let’s see how we can create these two flows in Power Automate:

Before we create a flow, you must have a SharePoint list. So, I created a SharePoint list (Expense Reimbursement) with four columns.

Apart from this column, I added an inbuilt column that is hidden: Attachments and Created By.

Once your Sharepoint list is ready, we will create a child Flow First, then a parent flow in Power Automate.

Create a Child Flow in Power Automate

To create a child flow, Log in to Power Automate. Then click on Solutions and click on New solution. Then, Provide a Display Name, select a publisher from the drop-down, and click on Create.

Then, inside that solution, click on New -> Automation -> Cloud Flow -> Instant.

Next, provide the Flow name, select the trigger (when an HTTP request is received), and click Create.

In this step, provide the JSON schema below or generate your sample JSON schema. Next, click on Show advanced options and choose Method type as POST.

{
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
        "Title": {
            "type": "string"
        },
        "Amount": {
            "type": "number"
        },
        "Date": {
            "type": "string"
        },
        "Category": {
            "type": "string"
        },
        "Created By": {
            "type": "string"
        },
        "Attachment": {
            "type": "string"
        },
        "Created By Email": {
            "type": "string"
        }
    }
}

To send an email, click the Next step and select the Send an Email(V2) action. Then, use the dynamic content from the previous step to provide the To, subject, and body fields.

In this step, we will use a response action, which is an incoming API call, and it uses the result of an action to trigger this flow.

Then, provide the status code as 200; in the body, write a message like below.

Now that the child flow is ready, let’s create a parent flow and call it the child flow.

Create a Parent flow in Power Automate

Inside the solutions that we created before, click on New -> Automation -> Cloud -> Automated flow.

Now, provide the flow name, select the trigger (When an item is created), and click on Create.

Inside the trigger, provide the SharePoint list’s Site Address and List Name.

Now, we will call the child flow inside the Parent flow, so click on the Next step and then select Run a child flow action. Then, provide the child flow you have created and input it into the child flow field.

Our parent and child flow is ready, so now we can test the flow.

To run the flow manually, click Save and create an item in the SharePoint list to trigger the flow.

In the screenshot below, you can see both flows ran successfully.

Child Flow

Parent Flow

Once the flow runs successfully, you will get an email in Outlook.

This is how to call a flow from another flow in Power Automation.

I hope you follow all the steps to create Call a Flow from Another Flow in Power Automate.

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Bijay Kumar

After working for more than 18 years in Microsoft technologies like SharePoint, Microsoft 365, and Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI), I thought will share my SharePoint expertise knowledge with the world. Our audiences are from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, etc. For my expertise knowledge and SharePoint tutorials, Microsoft has been awarded a Microsoft SharePoint MVP (12 times). I have also worked in companies like HP, TCS, KPIT, etc.