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Iron Contributor

Apr 27, 2018

Dealing with empty Person fields in Flow

I am trying to build a flow connected to a SharePoint list with a few person fields. However if I try to access any of the person fields and they are blank, it chokes. I even get an error if I try to...

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Pieter Veenstra

MVP

Apr 27, 2018

Hi cprothero,

I would look at setting variables as shown here:

https://veenstra.me.uk/2018/04/20/microsoft-flow-getting-your-sharepoint-field-values/

You will need to use conditions to then check the value of the people fields before doing anything with them.

cprothero

Iron Contributor

Apr 27, 2018

Thanks for the quick answer.This helped me clarify things a little. In case it helps anyone else, here's what I had to do.

Initialize variables for each field (no value).

Try a condition against each person field, testing the Object field itself (not Claims, DisplayName, etc) for null.

Then if it wasn't null, I could assign the right value to the variable.

I think my problem was that I was testing my conditionals against a value in the object, not the object itself.

Thanks again.