topic Re: pipeline return value to parent pipeline in Pipelines

pipeline return value to parent pipeline

g3kuser — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 10:56:02 GMT

I want to pass return value from child pipeline to parent pipeline and followed the example mentioned in this guide.

Set Pipeline Return Value - Azure Data Factory & Azure Synapse | Microsoft Learn

Child pipeline

Unfortunately I am getting error indicating the output property of pipelineReturnValue itself doesn't exist.

The expression 'setProperty(json('{}'),'output',activity('Invoke pipeline1_copy1').output.pipelineReturnValue.child_return)' cannot be evaluated because property 'pipelineReturnValue' doesn't exist, available properties are 'id, itemId, jobType, invokeType, status, failureReason, rootActivityId, startTimeUtc, endTimeUtc, monitoringURL, pipelineRunId, ResponseHeaders, effectiveIntegrationRuntime, executionDuration, durationInQueue, billingReference'.

Strangely this works fine in legacy pipeline activity and not preview pipeline activity.

Re: pipeline return value to parent pipeline

g3kuser — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 02:09:19 GMT

I didn't notice in documentation there is a bug related to it. Looks like I have to go with legacy pipeline execution.

Re: pipeline return value to parent pipeline

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 08:34:54 GMT

Hi g3kuser ,

Thanks for your feedback.

Best regards,

Adamk Kong

Re: pipeline return value to parent pipeline

kghj — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 10:52:44 GMT

Since Invoke Pipeline is out of preview I had assumed this would be fixed?
Or is there a new way to access the returnValue?

Re: pipeline return value to parent pipeline

PAschieri — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:06:13 GMT

Any news about this? Thanks

Re: pipeline return value to parent pipeline

robscott — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:48:36 GMT

Ran into the same issue and found that the expression has been updated from output.pipelineReturnValue (on the legacy pipeline activity) to output.properties.returnValue (on the "new" pipeline activity).

Hopefully this is still helpful