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The 'Update item' action forces you to update required fields even if they are already populated. I'm only looking to update one field value which is category. Everything else in this existing list item is populated and if I were to do this through the browser, it wouldn't throw an error because the required fields already have values.
How do I update a SharePoint list item without doing a 'Get Item' beforehand and trying to transfer those values to 'Update item'? This is extremely difficult when you have hundreds of required fields on a list and you should NOT have to overwrite them with the same values just to preserve data. Am I missing something or using the wrong action to update an existing item?
What's even more frustrating is that not all required fields have the red astericks prepended so I have to cross reference the List settings and try to guess at the proper value being returned from 'Get Item' (for metadata fields)
As far as I know you will have to overwrite the data. Especially if there are default values set for the column.
I think the alternative would be to use a HTTP request to update the item. I haven't tried it, but I think a MERGE HTTP request would only update the fields that you want.
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