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Posted on by giustis5 1

I am creating a Flow that sends an email when a new item is added to a SharePoint list, i only want to send the email however if a specific value is in one of the columns within the sharepoint list item.  I have configured the step as the image below but it sends the email whenever any item is created irrespective of my filter. 

 

My SharePoint list is called Accidents.  It has a choice column in it called Description.  The choices available are:

 

Minor Accident

Major Accident

Serious Accident

 

I want to send the email only when the value selected is Serious Accident.  As well as the below Filter i have also tried:

Filter( Accidents, Description = "Serious Accident")

but this did not work either.  Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

 

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  • efialtes Profile Picture
    efialtes 350 on at
    Re: How can i filter?

    @Samuel

    I couldn't make filters work on Office 365 Calendar Get Events, filter examples I tried are posted at https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Flow-Forum/Is-Office-365-Get-Events-Filter-Query-working/m-p/2239/highlight/true#M363

     

    Then I found a post on powerapps forum detailing similar filter problems with Sharepoint Get Items. According to response given last 25-april, "filter functionality has not been implemented yet. It's in the plan to support filter query. We don't have a timeline right now." No feedback since then. This second post can be found at:

     

    https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/PowerApps-Forum/Logic-Flow-Get-Items-Filter/m-p/632/highlight/true#M612

     

  • Samuel Profile Picture
    Samuel on at
    Re: How can i filter?

    In theory you'd type in something like "Description eq 'Serious Accident'". Some good articles for sharepoint odata syntax here (http://www.trigent.com/blog/introduction-to-rest-api-with-odata-operators-in-sharepoint-2013/) and here (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/fp142385.aspx#bk_supported).

     

    However, I personally couldn't get this to work. @SameerCh, any idea if these query strings actually make it through to the sharepoint endpoint?

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