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Power Automate - Using Flows
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Get metadata full hierarchical path in a flow

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Posted on 19 Nov 2018 15:31:21 by 17

Hello everybody,

 

I hope you can help me. (a poor french IT -> sorry for my english ^^)

I create a sharepoint list with a metadata column.

My taxonomy list is hierarchical list like this :

Country -> county -> town

In my column setting,  in the Display format section, I specify to display the term and its full path in the hierarchy of the term set. 

With a flow, I want to get in a variable the full hierarchical path to save the county of the town in an other column of my list.

I found a solution 2 weeks ago but today It didn't work anymore

I create a flow "when an item is created or modified".  In the log, I see the path with the label property :

{   "@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedTaxonomy",   "TermGuid": "2d87217e-83ab-4b7b-8660-051687c2bf7c",   "WssId": 60,   "Label": "France:2 - Faible:62 - PAS-DE-CALAIS:HABARCQ",   "Path": null,   "Value": "France:2 - Faible:62 - PAS-DE-CALAIS:HABARCQ|2d87217e-83ab-4b7b-8660-051687c2bf7c" }

And now, this is what I see :

{   "@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedTaxonomy",   "TermGuid": "2d87217e-83ab-4b7b-8660-051687c2bf7c",   "WssId": 60,   "Label": "HABARQ",   "Path": null,   "Value": "SAINT-DIZIER|2d87217e-83ab-4b7b-8660-051687c2bf7c" }

 

I try to delete the column and create it again , I have the same result.

 

Somebody have an idea to help me?

  • Tanis Profile Picture
    2 on 03 Feb 2022 at 05:24:42
    Re: Get metadata full hierarchical path in a flow

    Just a quick comment on this - it looks like subsites replicate the Taxonomy but do not maintain the WssId from the root site, so if you are looking these up ensure that you use your subsite address: http://YourSharePointSite/Yoursubsitename/Lists/TaxonomyHiddenList/

  • jkibler Profile Picture
    37 on 22 Apr 2020 at 17:39:40
    Re: Get metadata full hierarchical path in a flow

    This saved me, thank you so much!

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    stephaneblas Profile Picture
    17 on 04 Dec 2018 at 13:03:04
    Re: Get metadata full hierarchical path in a flow

    Finally, I found a solution with the hidden list call "TaxonomyHiddenList"

    The URL of the list would be like: http://YourSharePointSite/Lists/TaxonomyHiddenList/

     

    In my flow,  I done an "Get Item" from this list and the column "path" return the hierarchical path oh my taxonomy term.

     

     

  • GabrielStJohn Profile Picture
    on 03 Dec 2018 at 19:34:55
    Re: Get metadata full hierarchical path in a flow

    Hello, @tfhegdbn!

    Thank you for posting a reply to a topic on the Microsoft Flow Community! It appears that the users who you have been engaging in this thread with are now awaiting your reply! Please follow-up on this thread ASAP.

     

    Thank You!

    -Gabriel

    Microsoft Flow Community Manager

  • stephaneblas Profile Picture
    17 on 23 Nov 2018 at 13:53:49
    Re: Get metadata full hierarchical path in a flow

    Hello tfhegdbn,  thanks for your reply.

     

    On my list parameters, I create a metadata column.

    It's in french but you can see on the image the parameter "display the term and its full path in the hierarchy of the term set"

    metatadacolumn.JPG

     

     

    On my list, the result is :

    ville-label.JPG

    My taxonomy  list hierachy :

    Country : seismicity level : county : Town

     

    I want to extract on my flow, the county of the town.

     

  • tfhegdbn Profile Picture
    149 on 21 Nov 2018 at 10:29:27
    Re: Get metadata full hierarchical path in a flow

    Hi ,

     

    Can you share the process of "In my column setting, in the Display format section, I specify to display the term and its full path in the hierarchy of the term set."。

     

     For this I am a newbie, if you can share the settings of this Process, maybe I can find a place that makes your Flow unsatisfactory.Smiley Happy

     

     

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