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Finding List names for hidden SP site lists

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I am trying to create a flow revolved around the comments of a page. Comments are stored as a list in the background but, obviously, that list is not selectable by default in Flow. I am mainly stuck on how to find the list name to set that as a parameter in the flow. Does anyone know where or how to check this?

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I would think that typing the name of the list in as a custom value (assuming you know the name of the list you need), that should work; Flow doesn't seem to list every list in its dropdowns, but it does work the "hidden" ones you speak of, like Calendars.

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To find the List name of Hidden SharePoint List, try opening the Site in SharePoint Designer 2013.  You will be able to see all the hidden List.  Including the Comment.Guid List.  U Can un Hide it from there. 

 

To your actual problems, modern Page comments are not stored in the Hidden List.  They are now moved to a different datastore but accessible via rest api. Check this link https://www.vrdmn.com/2017/07/working-with-page-comments-rest-api-in.html 

Thanks for the response. I suppose that would make it difficult to use the Microsoft Graph API through Microsoft Flows triggered by comments, seeing as how that would rely on comments being stored as a list that can be monitored? I have been going with the basic concept of:

https://www.infopulse.com/blog/using-microsoft-graph-api-inside-microsoft-flow-office-365/ 

 

I am essentially trying to notify a list of 'Followers' whenever a new comment is made on a particular site page.

 

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To find the List name of Hidden SharePoint List, try opening the Site in SharePoint Designer 2013.  You will be able to see all the hidden List.  Including the Comment.Guid List.  U Can un Hide it from there. 

 

To your actual problems, modern Page comments are not stored in the Hidden List.  They are now moved to a different datastore but accessible via rest api. Check this link https://www.vrdmn.com/2017/07/working-with-page-comments-rest-api-in.html 

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