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Hello,

I'm using flow to create an event in microsoft planner. There's an option for "Assigned User Id". This isnt a drop down list and I've tried to populate with the users office 365 email address but it isnt working.

Could someone tell me what value to place in this option?

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DionGoile 110 on at

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"assignments": { "d2817eda-ce46-42fe-89f4-525ce2823b45": { "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.plannerAssignment", "assignedBy": { "user": { "displayName": null, "id": "34651387-a6c8-4459-922b-575b60df3ede" }
This is the JSON output of a List All Task functions in regards to assignment, looks like Planner uses the Microsoft Graph API to generate ID's.

So you will need to either authenticate with Oauth and generate the ID or get the output from "List all tasks" figure out which ID is related to which user (very unscalable).

I have only just started today on Planner Flow's so there is likely an easier way, maybe this is enough for someone else to answer the question. I will be spending more time on this tomorrow, if I find something around this I will post back.

If you feel like reading check the Graph API documentation here https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/docs/api-reference/v1.0/api/user_list
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Any update on this? Seems it should be simple to create a Task and assign an owner of it with a Flow but it's not. If I have the person's email address shouldn't I be able to assign them to a Task in Planner with Flow?
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Ran into the same problem. Luckily there is Delve! Just pull up a user's profile in Delve and copy the portion of the url shown below...after ?u= and before &v. That's what you're looking for as the userid.
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Yup. Just posted the answer in the thread. Delve to the rescue...again!
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Thank you. This is very frustrating the feature has been delivered half baked but at least there is a manual workaround for now. Thank you very much!
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Glad we could help!
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Tessa Kloster Microsoft Employee on at

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Hi all - we are tracking an improvement to add support for UPN/email address in the assigned to field. If you could also add the suggestion to our ideas forum for other users to vote that will help with the prioritization - https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Flow-Ideas/idb-p/FlowIdeas

Until then the Delve suggestion is a great one, you can also leverage the O365 Users connector which can map a UPN to the ID required in the Planner connector.
legendsfan 22 on at

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Thanks for the reply and I did end up using the Office 365 users connector as someone else recommended this on a blog. It works great.
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Thanks, good thinking. Flow should definitely just have a drop down of all organization members. Or a seacrh utility minimally.
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https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Flow-Ideas/Flow-gt-Planner-Assign-a-task-to-multiple-people-simultaneously/idi-p/46782

abrae005 suggests you add the "Get User Profile" action before the "Create a Task" action