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Get items Where Cell is Blank

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This is driving me nuts. Sunday = 2022-09-25 and Saturday = 2022-10-01

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Today is 2022-09-30, so this should return all three items in this picture:

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Instead, I get nothing. I tried putting 'null' and got the same result.

 

{"body":{"value":[]}}

 

 

If I remove "ItemChosen" from the Filter, it returns the three values. 

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  • IPC_ahaas Profile Picture
    1,374 Moderator on at
    Re: Get items Where Cell is Blank

    So I partially figured this out. Looking at the output JSON with and without the "ItemChosen". If the item doesn't have an "ItemChosen" specified, it's literally missing from the JSON. What madness is this?

  • IPC_ahaas Profile Picture
    1,374 Moderator on at
    Re: Get items Where Cell is Blank

    I found this other thread, but not sure how to apply it here.

     

    Solved: Blank Sharepoint columns no longer returning - Power Platform Community (microsoft.com)

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    v-yujincui-msft Profile Picture
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    Re: Get items Where Cell is Blank

    Hi @IPC_ahaas ,

     

    I assume the ItemChosen column is a Choice column.

    Maybe you could try as below.

    coalesce(item()?['ColumnName/Value'], 'blank')

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    vyujincuimsft_1-1664783362003.png

    Result Screenshot:

    vyujincuimsft_2-1664783384315.png

     

     

    Best Regards,

    Charlie Choi

  • JasonLane Profile Picture
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    Re: Get items Where Cell is Blank

    Hi,

    This article seems to help 

    https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Building-Flows/parse-JSON-Ignoring-null-value-s-when-parsing-JSON-payload/td-p/31999

    Thanks

  • IPC_ahaas Profile Picture
    1,374 Moderator on at
    Re: Get items Where Cell is Blank

    @v-yujincui-msft it is not a Choice column, just text. Looks like that worked!

     

    @JasonLane I'm not sure how that article helps. This is regarding values returned as null. In my case, if the value is null it's not returned at all.

     

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