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Get Email from user and enter into SharePoint list field
Solution 1:
You can create a workflow or Microsoft flow/power automate to update the Email address field based on the Person or Group field.
Solution 2:
If you are not going to use those email address ...
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What limitations should I keep in mind when choosing between single line of text or choice columns?
You are correct that you can't use a choice field in a lookup (but you can reference a choice field in a calculated column which can be used in lookups). However, there are some gotchas when it comes ...
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"Send an Wait for Approval" inside a "Apply to each" will never end
Your current flow is creating a separate approval request for each member of the group instead of sending a single approval request to all members.
I think you'll need to create a string variable and ...
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Microsoft Flow: Single flow for multiple Forms
Microsoft Flow has trigger action When a new response is submitted where you have to set Form ID to listen this event when MS Forms is submitted. And it takes only one Form ID value in this control.
...
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Power Automate - Get DisplayName from People object as text
Have you tried using Parse JSON action? For input to Parse JSON, use the Person object retrieved by Get Items action, and for Schema, use the below:
{
"type": "object",
&...
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Which Power automate/flow license removes the 90 days limitation
A cloud flow that has no successful triggers will expire and be turned off. After 90 days of inactivity, the flow creator will receive an email. If no action is taken in next 30 days, the flow will be ...
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SharePoint Modern Library - Power Automate notification email - 6 Months after Created date
Theoretically, if you used the triggers for when an item/file is created, you would then use a Delay action to delay for six months, and then you would send the email. This issue with this technique ...
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What format is required when adding a value to a 'Choice > Allow multiple selections' column in a SharePoint list?
Make the join value this (a semicolon and a hash - ;#):
Gleaned from this answer:
https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/a/78912
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Export/Import microsoft flow in SharePoint Online
Export a Flow:
click on ellipsis "..." menu, select 'Export' then click on 'Package (.zip)'
provide a name and a description for your package and configure other options
click on the "Export" ...
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Power Automate - trigger an email when one of the field in the sharepoint list is yes
Please check this post from Powerusers forum. It contains what you need.
Basically, you need use the SharePoint Connector Trigger for when a SharePoint item is created or modified and then a switch-...
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Is it possible to add HTML buttons in send an email(V2) of Power automate. I want to create 3 buttons which has links to 3 different sharepoint sites
I don't think you can make html button () works in emails. However, you can create links () with pure CSS and elements that would looks like button.
See sample of HTML used in [Send an email (V2)] MS ...
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Trigger flow with icon instead of button?
You will require button element to use action and actionParams.
However, you can add children elements to button element to add icon & text (if required).
Example:
{
"$schema": "...
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/_api/web/sitegroups/GetByName('GroupName')
You can get the SharePoint group Id from API response (body) using Parse JSON action like below:
Send HTTP Request action configuration:
Method: GET
Uri:
_api/web/sitegroups/GetByName('Flow Owners')...
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What is the default number of items that are retrieved in the Get Items action and what options are there for getting more than 5,000 items?
By default the Get items action retrieves only 100 items from a SharePoint list.
If you want to retrieve more items from a SharePoint list, you can enable Pagination via the settings of the Get items ...
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Power Automate - Embed 2 images within an email
Use two Get file content or Get file content using path actions to get the two images. Then use two variables to store their Base64 encoded content.
Then use the variables when generating the body of ...
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Power Automate - Action 'Get_tables' failed
As you are deleting excel file and recreating it daily, there might be issue related to file identifier when you are selecting file from file picker in "Get tables" action.
Instead of above ...
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List attachment to Document Library
Not sure if I understand your question completely.
You can use Get Item (not Get Items!!) to get all properties of a list item. Then edit the properties of the file in its new location in the library ...
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How to build a dynamic form
No, MS Forms does not have the capability, you can do some branching logic within the Form, but only based on previous questions within the same Form.
I think you would be better off building a ...
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Export/Import microsoft flow in SharePoint Online
There was no such functionality to import/export flows or any other backup option previously.
But you can configure Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies as shown here for prevention.
UPDATE
As per @...
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MS Flow time-out after 30 days
The answer is, it depends.
If you want to build the approval as a single flow, then the answer is no for the reasons given by @Michael Han_MSFT.
However, you could build a set of flows that ...
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SharePoint file name help
Try using this formula:
formatDateTime(startOfMonth(addToTime(utcNow(), -1, 'Month')),'dd/MM/yyyy')
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Get Email from user and enter into SharePoint list field
In addition to Ganesh Sanap’s Solution 1, here’s a sample flow for your reference.
There is one dynamic content called PersonGroupCol Email, which you can directly use to update the Email column. (...
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Power Auatomate/Flow - Attach a Flow to a SharePoint List/Library to trigger or create/update
Flow trigger based on site address, so you can't create a common flow to be used across multiple SharePoint sites.
Reference:
https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/General-Power-Automate/One-Flow-...
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Sharepoint Group Group ID
The "List group members" action can only get Office 365 groups. It does not allow us to get membership of SharePoint Groups.
To get sharepoint groups, you can use the rest API call. Refer ...
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MS Flow ODATA filtering fails on ModerationStatus
The correct internal name for ModerationStatus column is OData__ModerationStatus. It is usually hidden from the UI.
That's why you are facing the error that column doesn't exist .
Please change it to ...
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MS Flow ODATA filtering fails on ModerationStatus
Internal name of moderation status column is OData__ModerationStatus. So you need to use this in your filter query.
It has below values:
0 = Approved
1 = Rejected
2 = Pending
3 = Draft
So, in REST ...
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Is there any way to reduce the Date picker popup size in Powerapps?
Refer to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/canvas-apps/controls/control-date-picker.
Currently we couldn't control the size of the calendar pop up size.
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Update sharepoint list item with Power Automate
There are a few ways to solve this but here is one approach.
Add an Approved Date field to the list.
When you are updating the feedback field, also update the Approved Date to Now().
Update the Flow ...
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