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Patch an Item from SharePoint in PowerApps by adding a Person to a Person-Type column where multiple selections are allowed

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Hi,

I wanted to add a person (in my case a passenger) to a column Person Type by pressing a button in Powerapps. In Sharepoint, the column allows multiple people in a record.

I wanted to use the Patch() function and add the user with the User() function when the button is pressed.

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yashag2255 24,769 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Hi @Anonymous

You can add the current user as a person field in your SharePoint List by using the below expression:

Patch(SPListName,Defaults(SPListName),{Title:"Test3456760",PersonField:Table({'@odata.type':"#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedUser", Claims:"i:0#.f|membership|" & User().Email, Department:"", DisplayName:User().FullName, Email:User().Email, JobTitle:"", Picture:"" })})

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This didn't work for me because I dont have a UserList. All users are Office 365 Users.

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Hi @Anonymous

Can you share more details about the UserList that you are referring to? All the Office365 users are by default present in the sharepoint Person type field. Are you getting any error when using the above formula?

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hi @yashag2255 ,
Now I can add add a user to the record, but only one. if I have already an user (or more) in the record it deletes it/them.

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Hi @Anonymous

If you want add data to existing data, then you may want to take few extra measure, please follow the below expression:

ClearCollect(ExistingUsers,Table({'@odata.type':"#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedUser", Claims:"i:0#.f|membership|" & User().Email, Department:"", DisplayName:User().FullName, Email:User().Email, JobTitle:"", Picture:"" }),LookUp(SPListName,Title = "test").PersonField); Patch(SPListName,LookUp(SPListName,Title = "test"),{PersonField:ExistingUsers})

Here, we are creating a collection of the users that already exist as part of the record and adding current user value to it. Then finally this created collection is passed a Person field when patching an update to the record.

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This worked. Thank you kind stranger.
The only thing: i replaced
Title = "test"
with
ThisItem
because i worked in a form.

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