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Hi 

 

I'm fairly new to Power Automate, but I want to use it to migrate data from SharePoint lists in an old site to SharePoint lists in a new site - its a pretty simple requirement and for most of the lists I am migrating its worked fine.

 

However, one of the lists is failing at the initial get items stage and I can't see why. If anyone has any suggestions that would be appreciated!

 

This is an image of the issue:

 

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As you can see, its about as simple as it can be (I've removed all other future steps, it is literally a one step flow at this point) - the only thing going on here is the "Get Items" step which is connecting to the SharePoint list that I want to migrate. The error is as follows:

 

  "The field 'Immediate_Responsible_Person' is not supported in query. The lookup list does not exist."

 

The only thing that is different about the list to any of the other lists I have already migrated is that the data field on which it appears to be failing is a people picker field (Field is type Person or Group).

 

If I create a view on the sharepoint list that excludes the field Immediate_Responsible_Person and choose to limit the columns in the flow by that view, I am able to migrate the data. However, this will then mean my new list will omit the person responsible in the legacy data which is obviously not what I need!

 

Therefore the issue appears to be the people picker, but I'm not sure what I should do to fix it!

 

Thanks in advance for any ideas 🙂

 

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  • ScottShearer Profile Picture
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    @Churchy 

    Does you list have a lot of lookup columns?  If so, how many?

    How many columns are in your list?

     

     

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    129 on at

    Hi @ScottShearer 

     

    Thanks for the response - the list doesn't have a lot of fields - maybe 30?

     

    However, I have actually got round the issue now. There was an alternative field in the list that had a "DisplayName" extension on it, which gave me the value I needed to pass over into the list. I'm not quite sure what is going on here, but it does what I needed!

     

    Thanks

     

    Nick

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