Get Items/Create Item Multiple Lines of Text Column with "Version History/Append Changes of Existing Text"

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I am wondering if someone can assist me with this flow I am creating.

I am basically trying to migrate a SharePoint list and all it's columns to a new site/list.

All the items get created along with all the columns except for my "notes" column. The notes Column is a Multiple Lines of Text Column that has Append Changes to Existing Text enabled (Versioning)

Is it possible to copy over all the items of this column from the old list column to the new list column or at minimal at least the very last time added?

Here is my flow, I have selected the Notes column to bet the "Get Items/Notes" Column but when the item is created in the new list, its blank.

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I highly appreciate anybody can help me accomplish this task

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v-litu-msft on at

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Hi @WC-KSTILL,

You could use Request API to get these versions of SharePoint item to extract these note history.

_api/web/Lists/getbytitle('List Name')/items(itemID)/versions

Then you will get all versions of the item via following expression:

outputs('Send_an_HTTP_request_to_SharePoint')?['body']['d']['Results']

Then use Select action to only get the notes:

After all, you could convert these notes into a string and append it into the new item in the other SharePoint list.

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Community Support Team _ Lin Tu
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WC-KSTILL 117 on at

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@v-litu-msft

I will give this a try today and let you know if it worked.

Thank you so much for replying

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WC-KSTILL 117 on at

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Do I add the Send an http request to SharePoint action within the same apply to each?

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WC-KSTILL 117 on at

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This is what I have now. Now sure if its correct but I still don't know how to get it into the create item. Do I need to set a variable or something?

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Hi @WC-KSTILL,

Ok, please add these step to convert history notes into a string:

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Yousra 20 on at

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Can you help me with a similar issue I'm facing.
I'm trying to export the conversation history in a multi line text with appended changes into excel. It always results in a blank field. If I create a similar flow to convert the text to a string, will I then be able to export to the excel file?

Thanks,
Yousra

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Eduard23 8 on at

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Hello!
Kind of late to the topic, but the Append to string variable action fails, giving this error detail:

Unable to process template language expressions in action 'Append_to_string_variable' inputs at line '0' and column '0': 'The template language expression 'item()?['Link to Course']' cannot be evaluated because property 'Link to Course' cannot be selected. Array elements can only be selected using an integer index. Please see https://aka.ms/logicexpressions for usage details.'.

Anybody has any idea how to solve this?

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