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Hi,

I have a flow that updates a sharepoint list item. The list contains a people field that allows multiple people. The flow was working fine earlier this week. When I try to edit the flow today, if i edit the Update List Item task its asking me for 'Claims' for the people field. see below:

has something changed?

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Hi @Anonymous,

I have made a test on my side and you could refer to screenshot below to create the flow:

You could enter custom value in the "PeopleField Claims" fiels as below:

i:0#.f|membership|useremail

My flow would run successfully as below:

Best regards,

Alice

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I dont want to update the claims. I just want those fields to remain unchanged.
I retrive the item just bedfore i update it.
Last week it was just letting me selecthe field from the item i previously retririeved.
Now all of a suden it is forcing me to enter all the claims.

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My FLow looks like thisL
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I just want to use the vallues from GetItemAfterRegionalApproval when I update the item.

The output of GetItemAfterRegionalApproval contains this:

I want to use that RegionalAccountManager when I update the Item

I tried entering the following expression:
body('GetItemAfterRegionalApproval')?['Regional Account Approver']

After I entered that expression, saved the flow and reloaded the brwoser the call looks like this:
So It looks correct. But when I rin it the update fails. with this:

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DOH!
I needed to sitch modes:
All good now!

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