Flow Template: Return data

Flow Document

The last action should be a HTTP response action or a PowerApps Response action with no payload.

Flow Mailmerge

The last action should be a HTTP response action or a PowerApps Response action with a payload.

It’s possible to combine the different actions in the return data, for example return a message and a document and navigateTo and openUrl.

Message: return only a message that the work is done (available since version 2025.03.24), for example:

{ 
  "message": "All done" 
}

or return an error message:

{ 
  "message": "This is not allowed",
  "messagetype": "error"
}

Document: return a document, so it will be downloaded automatically by the user, for example:

{ 
  "contenttype": "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document", 
  "content": "...base64 string of the docx file...." 
}

If returning a zip file, use as contenttype “application/zip”.
If returning an Excel file, use as contenttype “application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet”.

Navigation: return info to navigate to (available since version 2025.03.24), for example:

{
  "navigateTo": {
    "input": {
      "pageType": "entityrecord",
      "entityName": "ctse_document",
      "entityId": "3eac5532-19c1-ea11-a812-000d3a4684b2"
    },
    "options": {
      "target": 1
    }
  }
}

Note: This functionality is only supported with HTTP response action, because of complex properties. More info about navigateTo: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/developer/model-driven-apps/clientapi/reference/xrm-navigation/navigateto

Open url: opens an url in another tab in the webbrowser (available since version 2025.08.29), for example a Sharepoint url:

{
  "openUrl": {
    "url": "https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/CRM/account/Contoso_FEDA8C48-2B75-486E-AC67-955115650E91/test1.docx"
  }	  
}

To force open the document url in the Word app, add this before the url: “ms-word:ofe|u|”, for example:

{
  "openUrl": {
    "url": "ms-word:ofe|u|https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/CRM/account/Contoso_FEDA8C48-2B75-486E-AC67-955115650E91/test1.docx"
  }	  
}

Note: This functionality is only supported with HTTP response action, because of complex properties. With the (optional) property “app” (true or false) you can force to open it in an Office app like Word instead of the webbrowser. Note: when using app: true, the file parameter should exists in the url.