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How to filter a list with a Person or Group column type?

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Posted on by Rodolfo1840 155

Hola team,

 

I'd like to filter a list by the Employee Name. However, Employee Name column is a Person or Group column type. So, when I run the attached flow, Untitled.jpg

 

I got the following error:

 

Column 'Nombre_x0020_Empleado.DisplayName' does not exist. It may have been deleted by another user.
clientRequestId: ab374634-f379-459d-aebd-96f1c11e3435
serviceRequestId: ab374634-f379-459d-aebd-96f1c11e3435

 

I've tried with different syntax but no luck. I think that I should expand the column (with ODATA $expand) but it's not clear to me.

 

Many thanks,

 

Rodolfo

  • Rodolfo1840 Profile Picture
    Rodolfo1840 155 on at
    Re: How to filter a list with a Person or Group column type?

    It worked!

     

    I realized that the fields ARE case sensitive!

  • Rodolfo1840 Profile Picture
    Rodolfo1840 155 on at
    Re: How to filter a list with a Person or Group column type?

    I tried this but it didn't work:

     

     

    One or more field types are not installed properly. Go to the list settings page to delete these fields.
    clientRequestId: c17b882b-7b5b-472c-9f9a-348b96c62c58
    serviceRequestId: c17b882b-7b5b-472c-9f9a-348b96c62c58

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    v-bacao-msft on at
    Re: How to filter a list with a Person or Group column type?

     

    Hi @Rodolfo1840 ,

     

    Maybe you could use useremail as a filter.

    Like:

    2.PNG

     

    Best Regards,

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    Gristy 2,429 on at
    Re: How to filter a list with a Person or Group column type?

    Hi,

     

    You are correct, expand is needed, unfortunately this is not supported in power automate. Therefore at this time you cannot do this.

     

    You could copy the display name to a column every time the item is created or modified and filter on that to work around it.

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