Azure Data Factory – Invalid Template, The ‘runAfter’ property of template action contains non-existent action

Quick post. Some of you might be building ADF pipelines and getting an error like the above. You won’t believe how simple this one is. Lets say your pipeline looks like the below :

The Pipeline is not running and complaining about the ‘runAfter’ property. Sometimes this happens if the Name of the previous block has a space after it. So in the above, we go to the properties of Block 3, “Load Work Orders”

Just make sure there isn’t a space after the name.