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Hello all,

As I'm very new in Power Automate, I prefek asking before loosing my time finding the operations to achieve this :

I work for a school a we have a hudge database to manage our students and their academic careers (subscriptions, notes, diplomas, etc.)

Has we have many many administratives tasks, I need to automate some using Power Automate and Power Apps. To do that, I can access the datas of our database using rest api calls. These calls return JSON objects.

In the database interface, we are working with views like this :

Each view has a name and some fields (in green ) to filter the results.

So, when I make a rest api call, I need to transmit the view name and I receive a json object containing the technical informations of the view like this :

{
 "Id": 1416,
 "DataClassId": "Anlass",
 "Designation": "PA-Classes",
 "SearchFields": [
 {
 "Id": 0,
 "FieldId": "Id1",
 "Position": 1,
 "Width": 73,
 "HeaderText": "ID événement",
 "TypeName": "Int32",
 "SearchText": null,
 "SortDirection": null,
 "DropDownItems": null,
 "GroupIndex": null,
 "PrimaryKeyIndex": null,
 "IsListColumn": false,
 "Operator": null
 },
 {
 "Id": 49,
 "FieldId": "AnlassNr",
 "Position": 2,
 "Width": 173,
 "HeaderText": "Numéro d'événement",
 "TypeName": "String",
 "SearchText": null,
 "SortDirection": "asc",
 "DropDownItems": null,
 "GroupIndex": null,
 "PrimaryKeyIndex": null,
 "IsListColumn": false,
 "Operator": null
 },
	 {
 "Id": 73,
 "FieldId": "UNTERRICHTSSPRACHE_BEZEICHNUNG",
 "Position": 8,
 "Width": 55,
 "HeaderText": "Langue d’enseignement",
 "TypeName": "String",
 "SearchText": null,
 "SortDirection": null,
 "DropDownItems": [
 "Allemand (Suisse)",
 "Français",
 "Deutsch",
 "Französisch",
 "Italienisch",
 "Bilingue",
 "Englisch"
 ],
 "GroupIndex": null,
 "PrimaryKeyIndex": null,
 "IsListColumn": false,
 "Operator": null
 },

If I want the data of that view, I've to send back this received objet without any modification. But If i want to add a filter to receive just some specific datas, I need to modify this object and, for the field I want to be filtered, I need to replace the value of the field "SearchText":null, by a value (for example here : "SearchtText":"Englisch",)

So my idea is creating a "kind of function" with Power automate. I would call this Power Automate flow with the full json object, the fiel id I'd like to filter and the value of the filter. In return, I would receive the modified json object ("SearchText":<Value Received in Parameter>,).

Inside my flow, I would make a for each 'SearchField' object until I found the correct id and the modify the field 'SearchText" value.

Do you think It's the best way to achieve this or is there a better solution ?

Thanks to all for your help 🙂

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