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Some Form questions are getting brackets [ ] around answers, \n at the end, and/or <br> at the end.
- Dec 27, 2021
src2021 My apologies for the delay, I got horribly tied up last week with testing & delivering a Power Apps app before our company closed for Christmas.
In this example our form is as follows and allows the user to register for 1 or more events:
As normal in the flow, start with the Forms "when a new response is submitted" trigger and the "get response details" action.
Save it at this point and run it. You will need to get the id of the question where you were asking the multi-choice question in the form. Copy that ID.
Next, add a Compose action and in the expression tab enter the expression below, changing my question ID to your one that you've just copied. The expression will strip out the brackets and quotes and replace them with nothing:
replace(replace(replace(body('Get_response_details')?['r840e31f73133432692afb19370c0ffea'],']',''),'[',''),'"','')
Then you can just create the item in your list, using the outputs of the compose above:
And this is the result.
Come back with any questions about this.
Rob
Los Gallardos
Microsoft Power Automate Community Super User
src2021 that's how the flow in Power Automate deals with multi-choice answers from the form. I'll post up the way to deal with that asap.
Rob
Los Gallardos
Microsoft Power Automate Community Super User
- src2021Dec 27, 2021Copper Contributor
RobElliottare you still planning on following up with another post? 🙂
- RobElliottDec 27, 2021Silver Contributor
src2021 My apologies for the delay, I got horribly tied up last week with testing & delivering a Power Apps app before our company closed for Christmas.
In this example our form is as follows and allows the user to register for 1 or more events:
As normal in the flow, start with the Forms "when a new response is submitted" trigger and the "get response details" action.
Save it at this point and run it. You will need to get the id of the question where you were asking the multi-choice question in the form. Copy that ID.
Next, add a Compose action and in the expression tab enter the expression below, changing my question ID to your one that you've just copied. The expression will strip out the brackets and quotes and replace them with nothing:
replace(replace(replace(body('Get_response_details')?['r840e31f73133432692afb19370c0ffea'],']',''),'[',''),'"','')
Then you can just create the item in your list, using the outputs of the compose above:
And this is the result.
Come back with any questions about this.
Rob
Los Gallardos
Microsoft Power Automate Community Super User- gavscrimgeouryahoocoMar 15, 2023Copper Contributorworks for me - many thanks 🙂