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SharePoint Document Library - How to check condition on Site Column

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I am trying to setup a Flow on a SharePoint Document Library and have the approval logic dependent upon a site column assocaited with the file/item of the Doc Library.

I don't see the availability of the site column when I add a Condition step:

If I attempt to use the "When a new item is created" trigger and manually type the Document Library name into the List Name field, only the "value" is available to check conditions for:

Anyone know how to gain access to a site column that I can then use as a Condition action check?

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Re: SharePoint Document Library - How to check condition on Site Column

Ok, so I think I found the solution. When typing in the List Name in the "When a new item is created" Action, you need to input the Display Name of the Document Library and not the internal name. The default "Shared Documents" has a name/Url of "Shared%20Documents", but the Display Name is "Documents".

I updated the List Name to "Documents" and the columns are now available to the Condition action:

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Re: SharePoint Document Library - How to check condition on Site Column

Hi @Anonymous,

I think that unfortunately we are not able to do that at this moment, you can post this like an Ideia at Flow Ideias discussion.

Another approach that you can try is use the SharePoint REST API to get the columns from List/Library, this will able you to use this value.

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Douglas Romão

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Re: SharePoint Document Library - How to check condition on Site Column

This is NOT solved, you said you wanted to access a "site column", and these are in a parent site not the holding site of the list on which your flow is based. MSFT in their rather short sighted wisdom have yet to fix this.

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