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Posted on by Chloe3

Hi all,

Hoping you can help as I've been trawling the forum for solutions but nothing I have found so far has helped. I'm trying to update an existing SharePoint list item with new information received as a microsoft forms response. The current point I'm using to try and locate the item in the list is the employee's name, so it is both a column in the list (Name) and a field in the form response (New starter's name).
I've included pics of what I have tried so far, if you can see something wrong with them or have a different way of achieving what I need please let me know. Thankyou!

One thing I have noted is that in many of the processes I am trying to follow, the initial output selected is a list action, whereas the only one I have available is the response ID

The first was following this process

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Where the functions in the update item action are

body('Filter_array')[0]?['ID']

and

body('Filter_array')[0]?['Title']

The other I followed was as follows:

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v-liwei-msft Microsoft Employee on at

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Hi @Chloe3

Could you please tell me:
Are you trying to update SharePoint based on the answer returned by the Form?
I think the overall idea of your flow is correct, but it could be a bit more streamlined.
I made a test for your reference:
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Best Regards,
Levi

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Chloe3 9 on at

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Hi @v-liwei-msft,

Forgive me if I'm incorrect, but that looks like the steps I've taken in the second flow I provided, which is not currently adding the output to my sharepoint list. Based off the pictures I included in my original post, am I doing something wrong at one of the steps?
And yes you're correct, I am trying to update an existing sharepoint list item with the answer from a microsoft form.

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Chloe3 9 on at

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Just to follow that one, I have tried rebuilding the flow as you described, however the flow failed. I've attached the run info:
The execution of template action 'Apply_to_each' failed: the result of the evaluation of 'foreach' expression '@triggerOutputs()?['body/resourceData/responseId']' is of type 'Integer'. The result must be a valid array.

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Chloe3 9 on at

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Sorry ignore this, I was looking at the wrong flow. With this one the flow succeeded, however the data did not populate the sharepoint list

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