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I need to assign a Lookup Field in List A to an item from List B. In List A my items contain a Link with description, wich contains the Title i need to look up in List B. So my Workflow on List A should look like this:

  1. Get Link description from current Item and store it in a variable.
  2. Perform some textfunctions to get the correct string to lookup in List B.
  3. Assign this string to the Lookup Field in current Item.

Step 1 and Step 2 are already working, but i can't get Step 3 to work. Unfortunately i can't give you the exact Error because it is in German, but it says something like "Can't convert the typed in Lookupdata in requested type."

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You need to get the ID of the extracted title from the lookup list and set your lookup field with this ID :

  1. in the SharePoint designer workflow, in the WORKFLOW ribbon, click Local Variables.
  2. create & set a string local variable with the extracted title
  3. create a new Local variable as integer.
  4. set the integer variable with the ID of the lookup list item (from the lookup list) using the extracted title variable.

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  1. Set List A's lookup value with the Integer local variable.
  2. Save , Publish and test.

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  • Sorry it seems like my description was not on point. An Item in List A has a Hyperlink Field and a Lookup Field. The Hyperlink description looks like this M-XXXXX where X is a Number 0-9 and the Link points to a website. I need to extract this 5 digit sequence out of that hyperlinkdescription wich works fine. But now i need to Look Up the Sequence in List B. But keep in mind that this 5 digit sequence is not the item-ID of an item in List B. It actually is the Title.
    – Jul
    Mar 19, 2018 at 12:56
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    @Jul i updated my answer , please try and let me know
    – A.Saéed
    Mar 19, 2018 at 13:55
  • @Jul most welcome
    – A.Saéed
    Mar 20, 2018 at 15:37

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