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How to pass multiselect person data to flow & successfully move item to sharepoint list 2025

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Posted on 14 Mar 2025 13:13:58 by powerpepper

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Hi all,

The issue lies with my "Assigned to" variable. Several weeks ago, I followed the steps in this video (posted 1 year ago) to

move the items in one sharepoint list to another. And it worked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVrXFu_3-3Y

Today I'm following the same steps and the flow does not recognize the person data passed through it.

When using the Select operation, I even tried mapping more than the Claims field, hoping it would

align with sharepoint's/office 365's person grouping, and the flow still failed. The error comes back as

"Bad Request. The specified user {with Claims and other mapped fields} can not be found."

Does anyone have any idea why the flow does not recognize a multiselect person data and/or have a solution?

Screenshots below show the error (1), the Select/Assigned to mapping (2), and the use/output (3). Please and

thank you!

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powerpepper 58 on 14 Mar 2025 at 15:53:17

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How to pass multiselect person data to flow & successfully move item to sharepoint list 2025

@Pstork1 Thank you for your patience and help,

but that didn't work.

The code showed up as it did previously.

This try and my previous tries shows the code in an

array structure (I did eventually remove the other

mapped fields to solely focus on Claims as the

video did):

[ { "Claims": [ { "Claims": "Person Info" ] } ]

So it doesn't look like pressing that button

had an impact on the code. Maybe I'm

missing something. I apologize if I am.
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Pstork1 65,431 Most Valuable Professional on 14 Mar 2025 at 14:01:54

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How to pass multiselect person data to flow & successfully move item to sharepoint list 2025

You are building Assigned to as an array since its a multiselect field, but then adding that array as though it were a single person. click on the little T icon above and to the right of the Assigned to Claims - 1 field. That will change it to accept the array.

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