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What is claims when using a Person column in SharePoint?

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Can someone explain to me what claims are when you want to action on a Person column in SharePoint?

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    manuelstgomes 6,625 on at

    HI @Anonymous 

     

    "Claims" is an object that contains the information of a person. It's the way Power Automate get's the information from SharePoint. But if you want to insert a value in this column you can simply include an email in your Power Automate and the value is automatically converted to a "Claims" object.

     

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    manuelstgomes 6,625 on at

    Hey @Anonymous 

     

    Is it clear? Do you need help?

     

    Cheers
    Manuel

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    Ales 4 on at

    I need help though. I am trying to update file properties for a person column by entering email. This results in an error however

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    My flow looks like this

     

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    Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi,

     

    You will need an array of objects that look like this to insert the Claims:

    [
    {
    "Claims": "ricx23@gmail.com"
    },
    {
    "Claims": "svc_account@gmail.com"
    }
    ]

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