How to resolve this error in an approval action Power Automate

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In this blog post, I will show you how to resolve a failed flow for an approval action with the error message:

“The request failed. Error code: ‘InvalidRequestContent’. Error Message: ‘The request content was invalid and could not be decarialized: ‘Could not find member ‘ContentBytes’ on object of type ‘ApprovalsConnectorFileAttachment’. Path ‘attachments[0].ContentBytes’, line 1, position 460.’.’.”

The reason the flow failed was:

In this part of this flow, I worked on the output to pick up attachments in the approval action.

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The flow failed because of the compose action, I used ContentBytes. This resulted in an error in the approval action.

Let fix this

Change it from ContentBytes to Content

Now go ahead and run the flow

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