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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
Brass 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 Hoven
Jun 27, 2017Iron Contributor
Did 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.