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Posted on by AP6 67

i have two lists in sharepoint - positions list and daily activity list , now i have selected a particular postion which is in daily activity list which uses positions list lookup of title column , so while selecting a particular record i populated the creted by text to hr in  daily activity list . Now i want to patch whole data in  daily activity list including hr name , how to do it ?

 

HR: LookUp(Positions, ID = ddAPosition.Selected.Value).'Created By'.DisplayName

i select the position dropdown values which autopopulate the hr name now i want to ptach this in list i am getting error

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  • Fredrik_A Profile Picture
    Fredrik_A 3,644 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

    You need to write the lookup patch such as:

     Skill: {
 '@odata.type': "#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedLookup",
 Id: Dropdown1.Selected.ID, // Use the ID of the selected skill
 Value: Dropdown1.Selected.Data // Use the display name of the selected skill

     }

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