Power Platform : Power Automate – Getting values of multiple selection choice column of SharePoint list and posting to Teams channel

Power Platform - Power Automate - complete flow for - Getting values of multiple selection choice column of SharePoint list and posting to Teams channel
Power Platform - Power Automate - complete flow for - Getting values of multiple selection choice column of SharePoint list and posting to Teams channel

Hi All,

Greetings for the day!!!

Today new small learning 🙂

Learning – In one of the use case we need to get value of column of type multiple selection choice and need to post in Teams channel

Since my team member bit struggled here to get values of multiple selection choice column so thought to share workaround which we used. Sharing is Caring 🙂

Details

  • I have created sample list in my demo tenant with column – “Multivaluechoice” with multiple selection option as in below figure
Microsoft 365 - SharePoint Online - Simple list with column of type choice with multi value selection
fig : Microsoft 365 – SharePoint Online – Simple list with column of type choice with multi value selection – “Multivaluechoice”
  • Following is the list schema
Microsoft 365 - SharePoint Online
fig : Microsoft 365 – SharePoint Online – List schema
  • Following are the settings for column – “Multivaluechoice”
Microsoft 365 - SharePoint Online
fig : Microsoft 365 – SharePoint Online – multi value choice column
  • Now next step is to use get the selected values in item in Power Automate

Power Automate

  • We created Power Automate on Item creation
Power Platform - Power Automate
fig : Power Platform – Power Automate – Triggering Power Automate on Item creation
  • Initialize the variable of type string “varChoice” as
Power Platform - Power Automate
fig : Power Platform – Power Automate – Initializing variable of type String
  • We are using “Apply to each” action for our multi selection value column and using “Append to string variable” action to append each selected value in our multi selection column value
Power Platform - Power Automate
fig : Power Platform – Power Automate : For multi choice column – using “Apply to each” and “Append to string variable” action for getting values of multi choice column in string variable
  • Once we have values in string variable, we could use the variable to post the message in team channel
fig : Power Platform – Power Automate – using string variable to post message in Teams channel
  • Following is the output when flow ran successfully – Messages in Teams channel with selected values in list
Microsoft Teams - Messages from Power Automate
fig : Microsoft Teams – Messages from Power Automate

Complete flow

Power Platform - Power Automate - complete flow for -  Getting values of multiple selection choice column of SharePoint list and posting to Teams channel
fig : Power Platform – Power Automate – complete flow for – Getting values of multiple selection choice column of SharePoint list and posting to Teams channel

Thanks for reading the article !!! Please feel free to discuss in case any issues / suggestions / thoughts / questions !!!

HAVE A GREAT TIME AHEAD !!! LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL 🙂

Prasham Sabadra

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