“URL was not parsed due to an ODataUnrecognizedPathException.”

Introduction

When performing a flow where you update a lookup, you may get the above error. We will briefly discuss the possible causes here.

OOTB Entities

These entities are slightly easier in that their plural is usually +s. For example accounts, contacts, organisations, …

Custom Entities

With these tables it is a bit more complicated, as you do not always know what the plural was when created. It can always be changed in the properties of the table:

To be really sure which name to enter in your flow, you can go to the following URL:
https://[ORG].crm4.dynamics.com/api/data/v9.1

Find the entity name and perform the action as shown below:

 

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