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Anonymous

Dec 05, 2016

Add-PnPListItem

Hi all , just running this powershell command, but the TItle is not being populated when I add the "PM" column value. The PM is a User/Group Column. If i remove that it works, but as soon as I add it...

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Craig Debbo

Brass Contributor

Dec 06, 2016

I've found weird things too with this command when trying to add 'people/group' fields.

But the fix was to run it twice. First run, create the item and add the person, next run, add the remaining fields.

$i = Add-PnPListItem -List $l.Title -Values @{"Approved_x0020_By"="cdebbo@abc.def"}
Set-PnPListItem -list $l.Title -Identity $i.Id -values @{"Model"="Airplane 737"; "Barcode"="737-767-dd78787"}

it works. Makes a bit of a mess if you have flow/workflows triggered on new/updated items but you can add conditions in the workflows to trigger on certain field values.

BTW- I would really love to see a Set-PnPListItemPermission command ... so I can modify permissions for individual items.

Anonymous

Dec 06, 2016

Yeah that is what i have got to work also is running Add then Set. Bur again next step was to trigger a flow on item creat, but not all fiields are set on create....

How have you gotten over that?

Craig Debbo
Brass Contributor
Dec 06, 2016
I've only used this in one place so far and what I did was set a field (e.g "done" = "true") when all my fields are finally set. Then I trigger my workflow to run on update and to check if 'done = true'.

I suspect you've already solved this much. I don't have an answer for a new item workflow.