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Posted on by Exon_flow

In my flow i loop trough a sharepoint list. For each item i create an event that is displayed in the sites calendar.

From the sharepoint item i get the link but i'm not able to set the description of the link. As a result when i open the item i get the full long link.

Is there a way to set the description from the flow?

If i edit the selected event a can set the description but i'm not able to set it in the flow.

The result after the flow, with the long link

If i edit this event individually i can create a short link by setting the description

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v-yetonggu-msft on at

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Hi @Exon_flow ,

I did a test for your reference.

In my scenario:

The SharePoint List:

My Flow:

please try this code in description:

<p><a href="Dynamic Content">description</a></p>

Best Regards,

Sunshine Gu

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Exon_flow 26 on at

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That doesn't seem to work. I have created a new variable where i put in your code but i get the following error:

OpenApiOperationParameterTypeConversionFailed. The 'inputs.parameters' of workflow operation 'Create_item' of type 'OpenApiConnection' is not valid. Error details: Input parameter 'item/Workspace' is required to be of type 'String/uri'.

The field URL of workspace expets an uri.

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v-yetonggu-msft on at

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Hi @Exon_flow ,

Providing a description to a link can only be inserted through a multi-line rich text column in SharePoint.

According to your error message, you inserted the HTML format into the hyperlink type column, which will cause an error because the hyperlink type column can only accept links. In my test, my link column is a multi-line rich text column.

Please try adding the code in the multi-line rich text column.

Best Regards,

Sunshine Gu

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Exon_flow 26 on at

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That will work with a custom field, only Sharepoint web parts doesn't show custom fields. see https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/sharepoint-events-adding-additional-fields-to/8d021f05-56ca-43b6-9234-2227c432c5ab
So the only way to add a link to the webpart is to use the default field "URL Workspace" that will only exept an URL.
So the questions still remains how can you set the description of the field "URL Workspace" from Power Automate?

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Exon_flow 26 on at

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My solution, i have remove the property WorkspaceURL in the webpart and added the link provided by @v-yetonggu-msft in a text field and so i have my link in the page.

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