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I am new to power automate and am trying to get the labels from my planner into my excel spreadshet via the power automate flow. Right now I only see I've googled and looked through youtube for tutorials there aren't really any clear instructions for a beginner on how to complete this. Any advice?

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Hi,

This is actually expected behavior when working with Planner labels, and it can be confusing at first because of how the data is structured internally.
In Planner, labels are not stored as simple text on each task. Instead, Microsoft has designed this in two separate layers:

The label names (like “Urgent”, “Testing”, etc.) are defined at the plan level under CategoryDescriptions.
The labels applied to a task are stored in appliedCategories as boolean values (for example: category1 = true, category2 = false).

Because of this design, when you retrieve a task using Power Automate or Graph API, you only get which categories are marked as true — not the actual label names.
From Microsoft’s documentation:

CategoryDescriptions defines the label text for a plan ()
appliedCategories only indicates which labels are applied to a task ()

Why your issue happens
When exporting or reading task data:

You get something like → category1 = true
But you don’t directly get → “Urgent”

So it looks like labels are missing, but actually they are just split across two different sources.
How to handle this properly
To get the actual label names, you need to combine both pieces: