Adaptive Card Error - Invalid Json

[pavanpal]

Please help me with this error

{
"error": {
"code": "InvalidJsonInBotAdaptiveCard",
"message": "Microsoft.Azure.ProcessSimple.Data.Entities.Exceptions.ProcessSimpleDataException: The specified Teams flowbot adaptive card request is missing or invalid. The tracking Id is '{0}'. ---> Newtonsoft.Json.JsonReaderException: After parsing a value an unexpected character was encountered: C. Path 'body[2].inlines[0].text', line 43, position 18.\r\n at Newtonsoft.Json.JsonTextReader.ParsePostValue(Boolean ignoreComments)\r\n at Newtonsoft.Json.JsonTextReader.Read()\r\n at Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JContainer.ReadContentFrom(JsonReader r, JsonLoadSettings settings)\r\n at Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JContainer.ReadTokenFrom(JsonReader reader, JsonLoadSettings options)\r\n at Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JObject.Load(JsonReader reader, JsonLoadSettings settings)\r\n at Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JObject.Parse(String json, JsonLoadSettings settings)\r\n at Microsoft.Azure.ProcessSimple.Data.Components.AdaptiveCards.AdaptiveCardBuilder.DeserializeAdaptiveCard(String serializedAdaptiveCard, RequestIdentity requestor) in X:\\bt\\1046707\\repo\\src\\processsimple\\Roles\\ProcessSimple.Data\\Components\\AdaptiveCards\\AdaptiveCardBuilder.cs:line 384\r\n --- End of inner exception stack trace ---\r\n at Microsoft.Azure.ProcessSimple.Data.Components.AdaptiveCards.AdaptiveCardBuilder.DeserializeAdaptiveCard(String serializedAdaptiveCard, RequestIdentity requestor) in X:\\bt\\1046707\\repo\\src\\processsimple\\Roles\\ProcessSimple.Data\\Components\\AdaptiveCards\\AdaptiveCardBuilder.cs:line 392\r\n at Microsoft.Azure.ProcessSimple.Web.Common.Validation.BotAdaptiveCard(String card, RequestIdentity senderRequestIdentity) in X:\\bt\\1046707\\repo\\src\\processsimple\\Roles\\ProcessSimple.Web\\Common\\Validation\\BotValidation.cs:line 585"
}
}

[efialttes]

Hi!

Can you please share a screenshot from your flow design, also from your Adaptive Card json design?

The error says Flow JSON parser found an unexpected character at line 43, position 18

Thanx!

[pavanpal]

Thanks for the revert. Here is the complete json

{
"$schema": "http://adaptivecards.io/schemas/adaptive-card.json",
"type": "AdaptiveCard",
"version": "1.0",
"body": [
{
"type": "TextBlock",
"text": "New Request",
"weight": "Bolder",
"size": "Large"
},
{
"type": "ColumnSet",
"columns": [
{
"type": "Column",
"width": "stretch",
"items": [
{
"type": "TextBlock",
"text": "@{body('Get_user_profile_(V2)')?['displayName']}",
"weight": "Bolder",
"wrap": true
},
{
"type": "TextBlock",
"spacing": "None",
"text": "@{body('Convert_time_zone')}",
"isSubtle": true,
"wrap": true
}
]
}
]
},
{
"type": "RichTextBlock",
"inlines": [
{
"type": "TextRun",
"text": "@{variables('varComments')}"
}
]
},
{
"type": "ActionSet",
"actions": [
{
"type": "Action.OpenUrl",
"title": "Chat",
"url": "https://teams.microsoft.com/l/chat/0/0?users=@{body('Get_user_profile_(V2)')?['userPrincipalName']}"
},
{
"type": "Action.OpenUrl",
"title": "Email",
"url": "mailto:@{body('Get_user_profile_(V2)')?['mail']}"
}
]
}
]
}

[efialttes]

Hi!

In the Adaptive Cards I have designed so far, I close body before declaring actions.

Not 100% sure this is the problem, but... my suggestion is to try this adaptive Card definition instead:

{
"$schema": "http://adaptivecards.io/schemas/adaptive-card.json",
"type": "AdaptiveCard",
"version": "1.0",
"body": [
{
"type": "TextBlock",
"text": "New Request",
"weight": "Bolder",
"size": "Large"
},
{
"type": "ColumnSet",
"columns": [
{
"type": "Column",
"width": "stretch",
"items": [
{
"type": "TextBlock",
"text": "@{body('Get_user_profile_(V2)')?['displayName']}",
"weight": "Bolder",
"wrap": true
},
{
"type": "TextBlock",
"spacing": "None",
"text": "@{body('Convert_time_zone')}",
"isSubtle": true,
"wrap": true
}
]
}
]
},
{
"type": "RichTextBlock",
"inlines": [
{
"type": "TextRun",
"text": "@{variables('varComments')}"
}
]
}

],

    "actions": [

{
"type": "Action.OpenUrl",
"title": "Chat",
"url": "https://teams.microsoft.com/l/chat/0/0?users=@{body('Get_user_profile_(V2)')?['userPrincipalName']}"
},
{
"type": "Action.OpenUrl",
"title": "Email",
"url": "mailto:@{body('Get_user_profile_(V2)')?['mail']}"
}
]
}

Hope this helps

[pavanpal]

Hi,

I am still getting same error, This is not working only with MS Teams. I check on adaptivecards designer page and it seems there is no issues with JSON.

{

  "error": {

    "code": "InvalidJsonInBotAdaptiveCard",

    "message": "Microsoft.Azure.ProcessSimple.Data.Entities.Exceptions.ProcessSimpleDataException: The specified Teams flowbot adaptive card request is missing or invalid. The tracking Id is '{0}'. ---> Newtonsoft.Json.JsonReaderException: After parsing a value an unexpected character was encountered: C. Path 'body[2].inlines[0].text', line 43, position 18.\r\n   at Newtonsoft.Json.JsonTextReader.ParsePostValue(Boolean ignoreComments)\r\n   at Newtonsoft.Json.JsonTextReader.Read()\r\n   at Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JContainer.ReadContentFrom(JsonReader r, JsonLoadSettings settings)\r\n   at Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JContainer.ReadTokenFrom(JsonReader reader, JsonLoadSettings options)\r\n   at Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JObject.Load(JsonReader reader, JsonLoadSettings settings)\r\n   at Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JObject.Parse(String json, JsonLoadSettings settings)\r\n   at Microsoft.Azure.ProcessSimple.Data.Components.AdaptiveCards.AdaptiveCardBuilder.DeserializeAdaptiveCard(String serializedAdaptiveCard, RequestIdentity requestor) in X:\\bt\\1046707\\repo\\src\\processsimple\\Roles\\ProcessSimple.Data\\Components\\AdaptiveCards\\AdaptiveCardBuilder.cs:line 384\r\n   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---\r\n   at Microsoft.Azure.ProcessSimple.Data.Components.AdaptiveCards.AdaptiveCardBuilder.DeserializeAdaptiveCard(String serializedAdaptiveCard, RequestIdentity requestor) in X:\\bt\\1046707\\repo\\src\\processsimple\\Roles\\ProcessSimple.Data\\Components\\AdaptiveCards\\AdaptiveCardBuilder.cs:line 392\r\n   at Microsoft.Azure.ProcessSimple.Web.Common.Validation.BotAdaptiveCard(String card, RequestIdentity senderRequestIdentity) in X:\\bt\\1046707\\repo\\src\\processsimple\\Roles\\ProcessSimple.Web\\Common\\Validation\\BotValidation.cs:line 585"

  }

}

[efialttes]

Hi again!
Let's see if this works. Replace the URL in your action and use a concat() based expression instead:

Current:
url": "https://teams.microsoft.com/l/chat/0/0?users=@{body('Get_user_profile_(V2)')?['userPrincipalName']}"

Proposal:
url": "@{concat('https://teams.microsoft.com/l/chat/0/0?users=',body('Get_user_profile_(V2)')?['userPrincipalName'])}"

Hope this helps

[efialttes · Accepted solution]

Wait, wait, wait

If the error persists, I would suggest to remove rich text block just for troubleshooting purposes. According to the doc it was introduced in AdaptiveCards version 1.2...
https://adaptivecards.io/explorer/RichTextBlock.html

...and according to Tomasz Poszytek blog (post from Jan2020) Power Automate supports 1.0.

https://poszytek.eu/en/microsoft-en/office-365-en/powerautomate-en/register-response-from-custom-ada...

According to this last post "...Microsoft Teams still works with version 1.0 of Adaptive Cards. If you don’t want to loose any functionalities of your designed card stick to those from SDK version 1.0 (https://github.com/microsoft/AdaptiveCards/releases/tag/v1.0)

If you’d like to use some of the features from versions 1.1 and 1.2 please turn your Teams (desktop or web) into “Developer Preview”:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/resources/dev-preview/developer-preview-int...

Hope this helps

[pavanpal]

Hey! I am a bit confused, Can you please remove the rich text block and give the copy the entire json here

Thanks for your extended help. 

Regards

Pavan

[efialttes]

Hi!

I was referring to this section

{
"type": "RichTextBlock",
"inlines": [
{
"type": "TextRun",
"text": "@{variables('varComments')}"
}
]
},

...so once removed your original JSON would look like:

{
"$schema": "http://adaptivecards.io/schemas/adaptive-card.json",
"type": "AdaptiveCard",
"version": "1.0",
"body": [
{
"type": "TextBlock",
"text": "New Request",
"weight": "Bolder",
"size": "Large"
},
{
"type": "ColumnSet",
"columns": [
{
"type": "Column",
"width": "stretch",
"items": [
{
"type": "TextBlock",
"text": "@{body('Get_user_profile_(V2)')?['displayName']}",
"weight": "Bolder",
"wrap": true
},
{
"type": "TextBlock",
"spacing": "None",
"text": "@{body('Convert_time_zone')}",
"isSubtle": true,
"wrap": true
}
]
}
]
},
{
"type": "ActionSet",
"actions": [
{
"type": "Action.OpenUrl",
"title": "Chat",
"url": "https://teams.microsoft.com/l/chat/0/0?users=@{body('Get_user_profile_(V2)')?['userPrincipalName']}"
},
{
"type": "Action.OpenUrl",
"title": "Email",
"url": "mailto:@{body('Get_user_profile_(V2)')?['mail']}"
}
]
}
]
}

Hope this helps

[pavanpal]

Oh God! You Are so awesome! It finally worked after removing Rich Text Block.

Can you give me some hint on how to use the code if not Rich Text Block

"type": "TextRun",
"text": "@{variables('varComments')}

P.S. -- I am not a developer, I am trying my best to help my colleague who is unwell.

[efialttes]

Hi again!

So, I would try the following: remove from the original design

{
"type": "RichTextBlock",
"inlines": [
{
"type": "TextRun",
"text": "@{variables('varComments')}"
}
]
},

and use this other approach instead

{
"type": "TextBlock",
"spacing": "None",
"text": "@{variables('varComments')}",
"isSubtle": true,
"wrap": true
},

If it this replacement does not work, please let us know. If succeeds, since you already marked the topic as solved, as an optional way to thanx for weekend support is by just clicking 'Thumbs up' in this current answer, or even in all of them  😉

Hope your colleague recovers soon!

[pavanpal]

Nope, Getting the same error if I replace RichTextBlock. Is it like I cannot pass variable through just TextBlock?

Regards

Pavan

[efialttes]

Mmmm

Can you send me a screenshot of the 'Initialize variable' action block where this variable is initialized? I assumed it was defined as string, but maybe I was wrong

Thanx!

[pavanpal]

Hi

Is this what you are asking?

"type":"InitializeVariable","inputs":{"variables":[{"name":"varComments","type":"string","value":"@triggerBody()?['body']"}]}}

I am using a crisis communication app which was launched by Microsoft recently.

REgards,

Pavan

[efialttes]

Mmmmm....

What's your trigger?

Just for troubleshooting purposes I suggest the following: remove from the original design

{
"type": "RichTextBlock",
"inlines": [
{
"type": "TextRun",
"text": "@{variables('varComments')}"
}
]
},

and use this other approach instead

{
"type": "TextBlock",
"spacing": "None",
"text": "Troubleshooting",
"isSubtle": true,
"wrap": true
},

Reexecute flow, tell us if error is shown again.

If error not shown, then the problem is with the variable we are adding (maybe its value is null?), we would need to inspect its content, on the execution screen, can you share a screenshot from 'Initialize variable' output?

Thanx!

[pavanpal · Accepted solution]

Hi @efialttes I have found a solution to the problem. It is not an issue of RichTextBlock or adaptive cards version in your JSON. This issue is encountered because JSON can’t understand the comment Variable "@{variables('varComments')}"

{
"type": "RichTextBlock",
"inlines": [
{
"type": "TextRun",
"text": "@{variables('varComments')}"
}
]
},

To resolve this issue, please replace previous path to below path in your JSON and kindly test it again:

{

"type": "RichTextBlock",

"inlines": [

{

"type": "TextRun",

"text": "@{replace(triggerBody()?['bodyPreview'],':',' ')}"

}

]

},

Thank you so much!!!!

[efialttes]

HURRAY! IT WORKS!

I've marked your last response as a solution

Thanx for sharing it!

[aanyoti1]

Dear @efialttes,

I need your urgent help, I am facing the exact same issue but cant figure out where the error is coming from. This error started yesterday and its affecting our work a lot 😥 , can you please assist and advise? 

I have been using schema 1.2 without any issue until 24 hours ago, this is the first time the flow has failed. The J SON renders in the Adaptive Card designer using Microsoft Teams host app.

[aanyoti1]

@efialttes 

Here is the complete JSON for your reference: