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Error Message: "The requested operation is invalid. Server Response: The query cannot be completed because the number of lookup columns it contains exceeds the lookup column threshold enforced by the administrator"

 

Upon searching the above error message in this community forum you get about 5 posts for people looking for help on the topic. The solution options from those posts using Power Apps are disappointing where the best solution is to use another product, Power Automate, to build up a collection of SharePoint data to use. A helpful blog post, however this adds needless complexity.

 

How to Get Filtered Items from SharePoint List to PowerApps using Microsoft Flow
https://www.netwoven.com/2018/12/11/how-to-get-filtered-items-from-sharepoint-list-to-powerapps-using-microsoft-flow/
By Sukanta Saha

 

Upon searching the ideas forums, you will find no less than 4 posts asking for a fix which Power Automate has already developed; "Point at a SharePoint VIEW with less lookup columns"

 

Power App Idea Posts
View in PowerApps based on sharepoint list view 143
SharePoint list View as DataSource 8
Connect to SharePoint Views in PowerApps 58
Ability to Point a Gallery at a SharePoint View 0
Total Votes 209

 

 

@microsoft Can we not share this code across platforms and get a quick win?

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    v-siky-msft Profile Picture
    on at

    @schuess3 

    Thanks for your feedback. I will take your voice to PowerApps Team.

    Hope the feature is on the agenda soon.

    Sik

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    on at

    Any updates on this? I can only find one workaround (using Flow) and I cannot find anyone who's managed to get that to work.

     

    Can we expect a fix in PA - this year? Or not?

  • schuess3 Profile Picture
    353 on at

    @Daryl_K I can not get the work-around in flow to work either. 

  • ElenaSSF Profile Picture
    5 on at

    Please take the request to the Power BI team too.   Much of my work on linking in Sharepoint list data would be very much simplified if I could get a view rather than the whole table with all linked tables, calculated columns, lookups on people and workflows and ad Nauseum.

     

    It seems very reasonable for not only a Sharepoint List connector but also a Sharepoint List View connector to exist.   In 90% of the usage of Sharepoint tables, that would be the preferred access method, be it for Power BI, Flow, Power Apps et al.   Especially as we can then reduce the data transmission and management to what was actually wanted.

  • AmbilyAppu Profile Picture
    10 on at

    Any idea when this would be resolved ?  

  • Herryp Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at
    I think we can split the list into several lists
  • gonza_ocampo02 Profile Picture
    3 on at

    You are a genious.

  • Bardsley Profile Picture
    16 on at

    So we're getting to near 2 years since the orginal post. Is there any news on this from the Power Apps team?

  • RBoneck Profile Picture
    415 on at

    Nearing year 3! Is this fixed yet?

  • sergiocloudguru Profile Picture
    4 on at

    No it is still not fixed. I have a relatively simple form with a handful of lookup fields (people and selects) and I still get this message (not helpfully in the interface, but buried deep within the Monitor results). I take it PowerApp and PowerAutomate are all for toy applications with 5 fields in them. Very dissappointing.

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