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How can I copy Lookup column as Plain text column

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I have one SharePoint list named: Customer-Project-List

with lookup column named CustomerName from another SharePoint list named Customer-List .

I want to copy this CustomerName column as text column in Customer-Project-List to use this newly created column in third list Named : Employee-Workload-List


How can I achieve this?
Please guide me.
Thanks in advance!

 

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best response confirmed by New_learner (Copper Contributor)
Solution

@New_learner Follow below steps:

  1. Create a power automate flow which will run on item creation & update in list Customer-Project-List
  2. Use "Update item" action to add CustomerName lookup column value to another text column

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Thank you @ganeshsanap. It worked as expected.

Hello@ganeshsanap ,

 

The flow is working as expected, but the flow is running continuously and this warning appears on the screen

 

Actions in this flow may result in an infinite trigger loop. 
Please ensure you add appropriate conditional checks to prevent 
this flow from triggering itself.

@New_learner You can check if your lookup column is changed since last version, add condition based on "Has Changed: LookupColumn" and write "Update item" action inside "If yes" block of condition.

 

Check this blog & video by @aprildunnamMS for more information: Power Automate SharePoint Get Column Changes 


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@ganeshsanap,

I have already added condition and did check this but it is still giving the above mentioned warning.

@New_learner If you have used the conditions correctly as mentioned in my above response, flow should not run continuously.

 

And you can ignore the warning as Power automate shows this warning when you use the trigger and update item action for same SharePoint list. 


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best response confirmed by New_learner (Copper Contributor)
Solution

@New_learner Follow below steps:

  1. Create a power automate flow which will run on item creation & update in list Customer-Project-List
  2. Use "Update item" action to add CustomerName lookup column value to another text column

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