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Posted on by zw2348 91

Hello, 

 

I have a flow that's working, but I want to clean up the result. I'm using PVA and PA to look up a name from a SharePoint list and return department/phone number(s). 

 

Question A, is it possible in the Append to String if there is no result, remove the result? 

 

Question B, the result always has the returned phone numbers at the top. How do I remove this? 

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    v-xiaochen-msft Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi @zw2348 ,

     

    I made a sample for you.

    I created several alt number variables to simulate your sharepoint column values.

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    @and(not(equals(item(), '')),not(equals(item(), null)))

    Phone Number : @{variables('Phone Number')} <br>

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    range(1,length(body('Filter_array')))
    Alt Number@{item()} : @{body('Filter_array')?[add(item(),-1)]} <br>
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    Best Regards,

    Wearsky

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    zw2348 91 on at

    @v-xiaochen-msft Thank you for this, I'm having issues expanding this. When there are multiple returns for example searching for Rob, the flow defaults to the first value found. I need help returning all values found. I've been researching but I'm not having much luck.

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