Change author of record in 'Created by' column

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Posted on by Karol

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Dear PA Users,

I'm creating a "Suggestion Box" to a company. I added in SP list a Column named "Anonymous" (Yes/No). I would like to hide the creator of the record, if the person would like to give a suggestion anonymously. Is that possible? How can I reach that? I'm wondering if there is a possibility to create a flow:

"When Anonymous = Yes, make a Service_Account creator of that record in "Created by" column"

Maybe it's trivial, but I cannot find a solution. Thank you in advance.

Best Regards,

Karol

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pkolodzi 2 on at

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Re: Change author of record in 'Created by' column

Is it possible to add an email from the person who sends this email? I don't want one specific one by default.
Below is the code I entered, but unfortunately it still does not work
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Re: Change author of record in 'Created by' column

Dear @ekarim2020 thanks.

I noticed that I had no Site Owner permissions, I gave proper privileges 5 mins ago. I'll check it later, because it's not working, maybe it needs time to "sync" in the cloud.
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Re: Change author of record in 'Created by' column

I've just created the flow and successfully changed both the author and editor

{ "formValues": [ { "FieldName": "Author", "FieldValue": "[{'Key':'i:0#.f|membership|AlexW@dev365.com'}]" } ], "bNewDocumentUpdate": true }

(1) Make sure that the Uri starts with an underscore character:

(2) The error 401 Unauthorized may indicate a permissions problem? Do you have Site Owner permissions to the SharePoint site?

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Karol 102 on at

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Re: Change author of record in 'Created by' column

Dear @ekarim2020,

I got stuck:

401 UNAUTHORIZED
I copied 1:1 everything from that link. Any ideas?

Body:
{
"formValues":[
{
"FieldName": "Author",
"FieldValue": "[{'Key':'i:0#.f|membership|rpauser@domain.com'}]"
},
{
"FieldName": "Editor",
"FieldValue": "[{'Key':'i:0#.f|membership|rpauser@domain.com'}]"
}
],
"bNewDocumentUpdate": true
}
}
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Ellis Karim 11,135 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at

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Re: Change author of record in 'Created by' column

See: How to change SharePoint item author (Created By) with Power Automate

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