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Power Automate - Using Flows
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Start and Wait for Approval - Assigned To Field - Choice field and Static Name?

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Posted on 13 Aug 2020 11:43:52 by 167

I have a choice field in my list

Radar@mash.abc

Hawkeye@mash.abc

Trapper@mash.abc

Charles@mash.abc

The goal is for my user to select a name from the choice field (titled Lead) to use in the Assigned To field. But I also want to have a second name added. The second name won't change. I'm using it sort of like a CC in case the selected name is out of office. So the assigned to field would be something like

Haweye@mash.abc ; Henry@mash.abc  When I type it in I don't see that it is working

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    167 on 13 Aug 2020 at 16:39:10
    Re: Start and Wait for Approval - Assigned To Field - Choice field and Static Name?

    That was the push I needed. Looks like this is working

    concat(triggerBody()?['Lead']?['Value'],'; ','John.Doe@123.456')

     

    Thank you very much!

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    67,165 Most Valuable Professional on 13 Aug 2020 at 16:19:18
    Re: Start and Wait for Approval - Assigned To Field - Choice field and Static Name?

    It does indeed depend on what Lead looks like but it should be something more like this.

    concat(triggerBody()?['Lead']?['Email'],'; ','John.Doe@123.456')
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    167 on 13 Aug 2020 at 16:05:42
    Re: Start and Wait for Approval - Assigned To Field - Choice field and Static Name?

    Thank you for the fast reply.

     

    I need a tiny bit of help with the concat writing... I have this and it fails

    concat(triggerBody()?['Lead']?['John.Doe@123.456'])
     
    Thinking Lead needs to have value added to it since it is a choice field... but I'm a rookie...

     

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    67,165 Most Valuable Professional on 13 Aug 2020 at 12:50:11
    Re: Start and Wait for Approval - Assigned To Field - Choice field and Static Name?

    Add a compose statement just before the approval.  in the compose statement concatenate the Lead Email, '; ', and the static email as a string.  Then use the output of the compose in the assigned to.  When you type emails or names directly into the assigned to it tries to look them up using a people picker, so its getting confused between the dynamic content and the typed input. Converting it all to a dynamic content string will alleviate that problem.

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