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For Selected item not returning Email or Display name

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Posted on by Scott P

I have a Power Automate that runs from the "For a Selected Item" on a SharePoint list

In the past, I've been able to use the email address and display name of the person that initiated the flow but now, I'm getting a guid-type id instead.

Any ideas why this is happening? I've tried with both the New and classic editor in Power Automate.

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w.p 8,339 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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try with this

triggerOutputs()?['headers']?['x-ms-user-email']

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Scott P 10 on at

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That's what it is showing for me now 😟

Not sure why this started happening...

I found if I do a test run with a recent trigger, it switches both Email and Display name to the guid(?) type id

But when I run it as a regular run, it shows the display name but not the email

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Ellis Karim 11,681 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi @SP-09052234-0

As shown by@w.p, you need to enter the expression in the Expressions editor:

triggerOutputs()?['headers']?['x-ms-user-email']

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Scott P 10 on at

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Thanks @w.p and @Ellis Karim.

Yes, that workaround works.

Is this a bug I should be reporting? It seems intermittent on when it works and doesn't 😥

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