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Greetings,

Hopefully a simple one for you all, 
I have a SharePoint list with a Department column (Title) another couple of single text fields and finally an Approver Column, which is a Person/Group field.
within my PowerApps I have a form with a Data Card containing a dropdown with the list as its items property, I also had a label which was giving me the email of the user in the approver column - this seems to no longer be working. I'm sure I simply had the formula Combobox.selected.approver.email or similar, though it is possible that the list had this field as text originally.
Any suggestions as to what I would need in order to get the persons email from the list based upon the selection of department from the combo box.  I have tried everything I can think of and searched both this site as well as general google searches.

 

Regards

 

Stuart Moore

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    Ami K Profile Picture
    15,689 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    Hi @Moores35TFL ,

     

    Assuming there is one Approver per Department in your SharePoint list and the Combo Box is a single select control:

     

    If Department is a SharePoint Choice field:

     

    LookUp(
     'Your Data',
     YourComboBoxValue.Selected.Value = Department.Value,
     'Your Person Column'.Email
    )
    

     

    If Department is a Single Line Text field:

     

    LookUp(
     'Your Data',
     YourComboBoxValue.Selected.Value = Department,
     'Your Person Column'.Email
    )

     

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  • Moores35TFL Profile Picture
    26 on at

    Many thanks for this.  I am sure I had tried this several times with no proper result, however ive deleted it all and retyped it and seems to work now.

     

     

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