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07-25-2024 07:40 AM
has anyone experienced this error when activating a Flow in the Flow designer?
I can change and save my flow. I can test the flow, but I can't activate my flow.
I'm on the Washington DC version patch4-hotfix1
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07-25-2024 12:12 PM
I removed the "Get catalog variables" component and inserted it again and the problem was solved
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07-30-2024 12:58 PM
I didn't have a "Get Catalog Variables" action to delete, so I just deleted everything and re-did it. Worked like a charm!
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02-21-2025 10:31 AM
I had the same issue and I was very close to re-creating the entire flow but thankfully I found the issue after going through each Line action in the flow. The issue was due to a wrong entry in two of my data pill. See screenshot for an example of what was causing the issue.
Once I deleted that entry and fixed the data pill, it worked.
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03-10-2025 09:49 AM
Please look at this KB from ServiceNow
https://support.servicenow.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB1710698
As @Blessing3 mention this is due a data pill issue. Please go into each of your steps and verify one by one.
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03-31-2025 12:17 PM
It really seems like sometimes a reference of some type gets corrupted, but it's not clear what it is. It would be very helpful if we could translate these into a specific object or connection to look at and diagnose. So far the only solutions seems to be 'delete everything until it starts working'.
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07-11-2025 04:37 AM
I also had this error and think i found a good way to troubleshoot and resolve it.
"Invalid pharmacy compound UUID:" refers to the table sys_hub_pill_compound, where the field "UI Unique ID" is the sys_id being referenced in the error.
Steps to Troubleshoot:
- Navigate to: sys_hub_pill_compound.list
- Filter by:
UI Unique ID = [enter the sys_id from the error message - This will return a list of pill compounds.
In the "Pill Prescription" column, you'll see the sys_id and the name of the data pill.
Go through your flow and remove any references to this data pill. - Try activating your flow again.
This issue seems to happen when a copied flow tries to reference a data pill from the original flow. Since the reference is no longer valid in the new context, it throws the error.
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07-17-2025 02:20 AM - edited 07-17-2025 02:59 AM
I have run into the same issue, removing and replacing the Get Catalog variables action didn't help. It's a shame I didn't noticed solutions from @danielanork Blessing3 and newmanan as they would have saved me a lot of time and I think they should be the accepted solutions.
Anyway, how I found the exact step that had the corrupted data pill instead of going through every step was this:
I opened the System Diagnostics -> Session Debug -> Debug Log and then run test on the flow again.
In the logs I got the "Invalida pharmacy compound uuid" error again but before it you can actually see which step was the last that was created OK - in my case step 20 so then it was easy to go to step 21 and find the corrupted pill there. By replacing the corrupted data pill the issue was fixed.