How to parse MS Forms checkboxes in Flow in order to post to Teams?

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Posted on by s4k

Hi,

(Flow newbie here!)

Is it possible from Flow to parse a response from a Microsoft Form that has one question/answer pair made up of checkboxes, in order that in my next Flow step I can show which Form checkboxes which were selected in the body of a Microsoft Team post?

Any answers/links/pointers to resources would be most gratefully received!

Kind regards.

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Hi @s4k,

What you mean is that checkbox has two options, question/answer, need to know which option the user submitted, and then post to Teams?
I have made a test on my side, please take a try with the following workaround:
Use Get response details action to get the relevant details submitted by the user, and then populate the Dynamic content-Question into Post Meassage-Message field.
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When choosing option to submit, as below:
Please take a try.

Best Regards,
Barry

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s4k 2 on at

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Thanks for replying Barry, really appreciate it.
So what you proposed I do is pretty much what I had done, the only difference being, in the Teams Message field, I was enclosing the Dynamic Content in square brackets as a way to highlight what was the users response, like so (UserOptions is the checkbox field):

Looking at your response made me rethink using the square brackets, and when I removed the square brackets from the Teams message, everything worked.
Looking at the JSON, I can also see that the values themselves are enclosed in square brackets, so (I'm new to JSON too!), somehow enclosing the responses in square brackets in the Teams message appears to "clash" with the square brackets in the JSON/response.
Anyhow, all sorted now though I don't fully understand why it broke - maybe someone might be kind enough to explain further (for a more complete understanding)?
Thanks for your help!

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