Referencing a user in a Collection - trying to populate value

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Hello,

I am trying to populate a user field 'Employee Name' in a Collection. I have a defined variable that captures the user, this is varUser.

There are 3 ways I have seen this done in videos and templates:
Method 1:

Method 2:

Method 3:

I have tried all three of these methods and the collection will not accept the values. What am I doing wrong? Below is the code that has been acceptable to the app. .

As soon as the 'Employee Name' field is added, the app throws an error. It is doing this also for all the comboboxes and drop-downs, but I want to go one step at a time.

Someone please explain how comboboxes, dropdowns and people are su

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Firstly, please post code in Text - the below is OCR'd, so watch spelling etc. Assuming currentUser is a Variable of Person type, are you saying the below does not work ?

Patch( colTimesheetDetails, {ID: ThisItem.ID}, { 'START - Date': dpStartDate.SelectedDate, 'END - Date': dpEndDate.SelectedDate, 'Start Hour': Value(txtStartHour.Text), 'End Hour': Value(txtEndHour.Text), 'Non-Event Related Work Hours': Value(txtNRHours.Text), 'Lunch Break': ckbLunch.Value, 'Travel Status': ckbTravel.Value, 'Lunch Delivered': ckbDeLiver.Value, 'Additional Information': txtDetaiLs.Text, '699 - Day Off': ckb699.Value, Employee: { '@odata.type': "#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedUser", Claims: "i:0#.f|membership|" & Lower(currentUser.Email), Department: "", DisplayName: currentUser.FullName, Email: currentUser.Email, JobTitle: "", Picture: "" } } )

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Sorry about the wrong posting methodology.

Everything now has the red underline.

I tried it with varUser (my defined user variable) and CurrentUser (the wording in your clip. It still will not work.

"Invalid Argument type. Expecting a Record Value, but of a different schema.
Missing column. Your formula is missing a column 'Claims" with a type of 'Text'.
The function 'Patch' has some invalid arguments."

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This is how the collection is set up. If I change any aspect of the 'Employee Name' the collection throws an error as well.
//Define Data Collect(colTimesheetDetails,{ 'Employee Name': VarUser, Week_End_Date: DateValue(lblEndDate.Text), WeekEndNum: Text(DateValue(lblEndDate.Text),"yyyymmdd"), DayOfWeek: DateValue(lblEndDate.Text)-7, 'START - Date': dpStartDate.SelectedDate, 'END - Date': dpEndDate.SelectedDate, DayOfWeekNum: Text(dpStartDate.SelectedDate,"yyyymmdd"), 'Start Hour':0, 'End Hour':0, 'Start - Minutes': {Value:"00"}, 'End - Minutes': {Value:"00"}, 'Non-Event Related Work Hours': 0, 'Approval Status': {Value:"In Progress"}, 'Lunch Break': true, 'Travel Status': false, 'Lunch Delivered': false, '699 - Day Off': false, 'Additional Information': Blank(), EntryType: {Value:"Timesheet"} });

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I created a new Person Picker field in the list. Then applied everything that has been suggested. The results were:
"Invalid Argument type. Expecting a Record Value, but of a different schema.
Missing column. Your formula is missing a column 'DisplayName" with a type of 'Text'.
The function 'Patch' has some invalid arguments."

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@Tj7933 ,

Assuming Employee is a Person field and currentUser is a Variable reflecting the User() , function then this is the correct syntax for posting to it

Employee: { '@odata.type': "#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedUser", Claims: "i:0#.f|membership|" & Lower(currentUser.Email), Department: "", DisplayName: currentUser.FullName, Email: currentUser.Email, JobTitle: "", Picture: "" }

to bypass the currentUser part, you might test with this

Employee: { '@odata.type': "#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedUser", Claims: "i:0#.f|membership|" & Lower(User().Email), Department: "", DisplayName: User().FullName, Email: User().Email, JobTitle: "", Picture: "" }

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