web
You’re offline. This is a read only version of the page.
close
Skip to main content

Announcements

News and Announcements icon
Community site session details

Community site session details

Session Id :
Power Platform Community / Forums / Power Automate / Flow to Update SharePo...
Power Automate
Answered

Flow to Update SharePoint Choice column data

(0) ShareShare
ReportReport
Posted on by 365

Hello,

 

I have a SharePoint Online list to track visitors who sign-in to a community center. On their first visit, they fill out a PowerApp form that has them choose their visitor affiliation from specified choices that populate from the SharePoint list's choice column. When the guests return, we don't ask them to select their affiliation again; however, I feel like that could be useful data, so I'm trying to create a Flow that would trigger whenever an entry is created and the "new or returning" column is set to returning. My issue is that I am having trouble with the part of pulling the initial visit's affiliation into the returning visit's choice column entry. Each visitor gets assigned a unique Guest ID that sticks with them for each visit, so I'm trying to have it look for the submitted returning visitor's guest ID and then go to the initial "new" status record and pull that choice column value and toss it into the "returning" status record every time they come back.

Categories:
I have the same question (0)
  • Verified answer
    v-alzhan-msft Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi @ngreen ,

     

    If the Choice column allow multiple selection?

    If the Choice column allow multiple selection, I affraid that there is no any way to achieve your needs.

    If the Choice column don't allow multiple selection, you could update the Choice column by Enter Custom value and enter the dynamic content of the correspoinding Choice column, and the flow should as screenshot below:

    1.png

     

    Best regards,

    Alice       

     

    Community Support Team _ Alice Zhang
    If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

  • Thor_PPC Profile Picture
    365 on at

    @v-alzhan-msft 

     

    It does allow for multiple selection, so that seems to be cause of the issue that I was having with making this. Thank you for your help!

  • AndyTuke1 Profile Picture
    75 on at

    Its is possible to update multi choice columns, there's an article here explaining how

    https://365basics.com/microsoft-flow-populate-a-multi-choice-field-in-sharepoint/

Under review

Thank you for your reply! To ensure a great experience for everyone, your content is awaiting approval by our Community Managers. Please check back later.

Helpful resources

Quick Links

Season of Sharing Community Challenge Launch!

Jump in, show your community spirit, and win prizes!

Kudos to our 2025 Community Spotlight Honorees

Expanding mentorship, skilling, and AI innovation

Congratulations to the May Top 10 Community Leaders!

These are the community rock stars!

Leaderboard > Power Automate

#1
Valantis Profile Picture

Valantis 474

#2
11manish Profile Picture

11manish 268

#3
David_MA Profile Picture

David_MA 243 Super User 2026 Season 1

Last 30 days Overall leaderboard