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Posted on by automating 5

Hey Guys

I am struggling to get an expression to work when setting the Mailnickname for a user gathered by response details in a form

Essentially I get Firstname and Last Name of the form and then want to have f.lastname set as the nickname 

substring(outputs('Get_response_details')?['body/FirstnameID'], 0, 1) & "." & outputs('Get_response_details')?['body/LastnameID']

And it just won't work.

Any ideas ?

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    v-yueyun-msft Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi , @automating 

    Can you try to use this code ? In flow , there is no & in the expression.

    concat( substring(outputs('Get_response_details')?['body/FirstnameID'], 0, 1)  , '.', outputs('Get_response_details')?['body/LastnameID'] )

     

    If this can not help you , can you show the error code in your side?

     

    If this reply can help you , you can click mark this reply as solution (Accept solution) which can help more people, thanks in advance! 

     

    Best Regards,

    Yueyun Zhang

     

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    automating 5 on at

    Yueyun Zhang you are a legend, thankyou 🙂

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