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Extracting text from SharePoint List

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Posted on by sdandy_lion

Hello! I am brand new to Power Automate, and would love any help. Inside a list, I have a SharePoint List where users submit items. One of the columns, High-Level Summary, in the list includes "Multiple Lines of Text" and is where folks can submit notes.  I am trying to create an flow that

 

1. Is triggered by a new item being added to the list

2. Extracts the text from the High-Level Summary column of this new item.

3. Sends that text via email to a user.

 

I've tried different options, but I can't seem to extract the text. Here is my current flow...


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The closest I could get was an email that included this text...

 

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Any pointers for what I'm doing wrong?

 

Thanks for any help!

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  • v-yueyun-msft Profile Picture
    v-yueyun-msft Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi , @sdandy_lion 

    According to your description, you have got the text from html in your flow and return the Json text string. And what value do your want to extract from the Json object?

     

    Best Regards,

    Yueyun Zhang

     

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