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Collect User Email into SharePoint 'Person or Group' record

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This seems like it should be easy, but I'm stumped. I'd like to take something like the User( ).Email function and collect that into a new record of a SharePoint list. That record is the 'Person or Group' data type and is expecting a 'record' data type. User( ).Email is text so that doesn't do.

Closest I got to it is this:

Collect(SPList, {Email: User( )})

User( ) is a record, but clearly not what SharePoint is expecting because it fails to collect anything:

Collect works for all my other fields so I know it's at least passing information along. Anyone deal with this?

I have been able to make a form and collect from a form field, but I'm trying to avoid making users unnecessarily have to fill out and select their email.

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poweractivate 11,078 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Instead of

@JimmyJams wrote:
Collect(SPList, {Email: User( )} )

Try

Collect(SPList, {Email: User().Email})

See if it works.

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Thanks for the reply @poweractivate! Unfortunately it does not.

User( ).Email is a text datatype. An SP List item of 'Person or Group' seems to want a record data type:

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RandyHayes 76,299 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Change your formula to:

With(User(), Collect(SPList, {Email: { Claims:"i:0#.f|membership|" & Lower(Email), Department:"", DisplayName: FullName, Email: Email, JobTitle: "", Picture: "" } } ) )

This will create a new record with the following assumptions:

1) There are NO required columns in your list

2) The Email column in your list is the real name of the column and it is a Person type column.

I hope this is helpful for you.

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