When using an Apply to each on a SharePoint multiple person column, (Approvers) how do you pass individual user info (display name, email, id...) to a variable within as it iterates?
When using an Apply to each on a SharePoint multiple person column, (Approvers) how do you pass individual user info (display name, email, id...) to a variable within as it iterates?
Hi @bdc604 ,
It seems that the variable type you set is unable to pass the name, email and id you mentioned. Please try setting the variable type to String.
Or a variable type that matches the data type of the user info you mentioned.
Image reference:
In addition, you could also consider using Compose to pass these values, like:
Please take a try.
Best Regards,
@bdc604 wrote:
I appreciate the links but it doesn’t answer my question. SP ootb approval flows are too simplistic and static for our needs. We need to pull participants (approvers, reviewers, informed) from a distribution list with multi person columns.
Which you can do with the links I provided above.
What exactly are you trying to accomplish? It looks like you are trying to configure your own approval from scratch rather than use the built-in approvals functionlity? The official Microsoft Flow documentation has demos of pretty much every possible approval type:
As the documentation above shows, the submitter's data would be contained within a SharePoint list based upon columns that you create for that list. That data can be piped into the Flow via various fields of the approval step(s), like shown here:
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