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Flow Get my profile (V2) displaying the wrong user

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Hi Folks.

Hopefully you can help me, I am trying to do an approval workflow which is actually two workflows together

 

WORKFLOW 1

I have created a Microsoft form for people to input some information. This form is then used with flow to populate a number of columns in a list. I want one of the columns to be "Requested By". To achieve this I have used Get my profile (V2) which I assumed would be the user who has filled in the form.

 

Later on, there is a SharePoint create item that has a Requested by field and is populated with the "Display name" item from Get my profile (V2)

 

The problem that I am running into is regardless of who fills in the form it is always putting my personal details into the get my profile option and not of the user who filled in the form.

 

I know that one way to get around this would be to make the user enter their Name then use that field later on to get a user profile based on that column but I would prefer that it was smart enough to know who filled in the form in the first place

 

 WORKFLOW 2

 

This workflow detects that a new item has been added to the SP List and then triggers a workflow to get the requesters manager and get approval. This flow is working okay at the moment based off my information but I can't test with someone else because I cant get their details 

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    RobElliott Profile Picture
    10,323 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

    Hi @Anonymous, "Get my profile" literally means that and it will get your (the owner of the Flow) profile details. What you need to use is Get user profile (V2). The image below shows one of my live flows that does exactly what your Workflow 1 needs to do and saves the user details to the SharePoint list based on the responder's email address. As part of the same flow I send an email using the Given Name from the Office 365 Get User Profile with Hi [Given Name], thank you for completing the form etc etc

    Rob
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    1 - Get User Profile1 - Get User Profile

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    on at

    Awesome thank you so much that has done exactly what i want and given me a much better idea of how the flows work

  • garry9318 Profile Picture
    48 on at

    Hi @RobElliott , 

     

    Can you help me with it. I am using the similar kind of flow and get user profile should get the user email from 365 profile based on the name but it is not working as such and retuning me anonymous user value. 

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