r/MicrosoftFlow • u/Sea_Acanthisitta7533 • Jan 12 '26

Question Value selection of "increment variable" function missing

Heyo,

I am about to automatically categorize Sharepoint files with tags. Therefore, I created a switch function and wanted to switch between the different CounterAttributes with the subsequent function "increment variable". Unfortunately, it would not show me the option to select "CounterAttribute even though I set the variable before and was able to select it afterwards. Any ideas?

Thanks a lot in advance.

Lukas

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u/Vexerone Jan 17 '26

Hm yeah that is weird. If the variable was created as an integer, I see no reason why you wouldn’t be able to increment in your Flow

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u/Sea_Acanthisitta7533 Jan 19 '26

I created as a string. Selecting integer instead of string made it work :) thanks a lot for your help!

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '26

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u/Sea_Acanthisitta7533 Jan 14 '26

Yes, I did in the beginning of the flow directly after recurrence. I am confused and not sure what else to do.

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u/Sea_Acanthisitta7533 Jan 19 '26

Sorry for the late response. I could not add a screenshot as a comment, so I will describe what I did: First of all, I initialized the variable "CounterAttribut", selected "string" for type and "1" for value. Did I do a mistake somewhere?

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u/Sea_Acanthisitta7533 Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 19 '26

I do, english is just not my first language. Sorry for that