Taking a group of email addresses in one column and resolving them to usernames in another?

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Posted on 10 Jul 2024 04:45:34 by bigdingus

Hi all,

I have a sharepoint list, with three columns:

Title
Owner (type:multiple lines of text)

Owner-Resolved (type:person or group)

In the Owner column I have a group of email addresses, (eg. john.smith@generic.com; jane.smith@generic.com; robert.etc@generic.com) which are all plain text imported from an excel sheet.

I would like to take whatever email addresses are in each row, and resolve them to a username in the Owner-Resolved column (eg. Smith, John Smith,Jane etc etc). and for this to happen whenever an email is added to the Owner column.

I've no idea if this is even possible, I've never built anything in power automate so any help is appreciated!

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BizAppBee 87 on 11 Jul 2024 at 04:33:38

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Re: Taking a group of email addresses in one column and resolving them to usernames in another?

Hi @bigdingus, To answer this question I created a sharepoint list with the 3 fields on my end with the same data types and a power automate flow that triggers on create/update of an item on a sharepoint list
I have two array variables and a condition to check if the owner field contains data and if the owner-resolved field is blank
If it meets the condition, I split the email addresses, put them in an array and do an update on the list item.
Watch my video here for more details --> https://youtu.be/WVYb284APcI

Hope it helps!

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