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How to separate different selections in a String variable

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Posted on by Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee

Hi,

I have made a flow so that documents are created from a Sharepoint list at the time an approval flow is generated in order to attach a copy to the user in their email. 

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The process is successful, but the multiple selection items of my sharepoint are not separated when transforming my variable into String of these selections (in this example it should say NNS Territorio, PTA Categoria/Cuenta, Crecimiento) since they are 3 different selections.

 

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Is there any way to separate these selections within the variable?

 

the (basic) test html structure is as follows

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Please help me.

 

Regards!

 

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    Jorge Roque Profile Picture
    Jorge Roque Microsoft Employee on at

    Hello @Anonymous 

     

    To clarify, your flow works as intended aside from the fact that your string Variables Involucradas is being returned with values containing no spaces in between ( ) or commas (,) separating them.

     

    Resulting in: NNS TerritorioPTA Categoria/CuentaCrecimiento

    Instead of: NNS Territorio, PTA Categoria/Cuenta, Crecimiento

     

    If this string is being created through an Apply to each loop and an Append to string action I would advise you to try and apply this simple solution (Case B) (see images below).

     

     

    Case A

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    Here the Append action only has the value or variable intended which results in the following string (consistent with your issue):

     

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    Case B

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    Here I plugged in a comma (,) and a space ( ) before the value Constança Rodrigues which in turn returns the string in a more organized fashion.

     

    jorgeroque_3-1650472972418.png

     

     

    If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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    Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi @jorgeroque 

    Thanks you so much, I tried and its works perfectly.  the only problem is that a comma is output from each option from the String but I think that this is already normal since a call is only made to my values. 

     

    Thank you very much for your help, I have learned a lot about this with the help you have given me and how active the forum is.

     

    Regards

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