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Darren Parkinson
Jun 08, 2017Brass Contributor
SharePoint Item Department Empty
I'm trying to use Flow to update a field in a SharePoint list on creation of a new item. I can get it to add text, but when I try and use the Department field from an added Person field, it is just ...
Darren Parkinson
Jun 09, 2017Brass Contributor
As an update, I get blank values for Department and Job Title for any person field, including Created By and Modified By fields. Are these "taxonomy fields"? Is that related?
- Jacques van der HovenJun 27, 2017Iron ContributorDid you ever get this resolved?
- Darren ParkinsonJun 27, 2017Brass Contributor
No, I'm afraid not -- I haven't had an answer to any question I've posted in this community. Feels like I'm posting to a void.
In the end I've worked around it with reporting since PowerBI sees the person field as expandable and allows me to extract the department from there.
- Jacques van der HovenJun 27, 2017Iron ContributorThanks Darren. I'm having the same difficulty - the void - not sure what's happening and why there's a lack of feedback/responses.