Change View Settings

[SamBrent]

Hi,

I'm building a flow to set up a document library with views based on default values. I have the part of the flow set up to create the views but I would like to be able to set something up to change the button below to select the highlighted one so that views are shown outside of their folders. 

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

[Expiscornovus · Accepted solution]

Hi @SamBrent,

You could use a POST request with PATCH header against the getById method. In the body of this request you could use the Scope property and set this to 1. This is one of the ViewScope enumeration values which should correspond with that setting from your screenshot.

Below is an example setup in Power Automate flow.

Uri

_api/web/lists/getbytitle('Documents')/Views/getById('@{variables('ViewId')}')

Headers

{
  "Accept": "application/json;odata=verbose",
  "Content-Type": "application/json;odata=verbose",
  "If-Match": "*",
  "X-HTTP-Method": "PATCH"
}

Body

{
"__metadata": { "type": "SP.View"},
"Scope": 1
}

[SamBrent]

Thanks for your help 🙂 

[SamBrent]

Hi @Expiscornovus

The part of the flow that you showed works perfectly, thank you. 

One issue I am having is that I need to apply this to multiple views that could be different each time so I am unable to just type the View ID in manually. I built a part of the flow (shown below) that I believed would solve this for me by using a HTTP request to get the IDs and then filtering them.

I am having an issue with the Parse JSON but it is returning this error (which is not very helpful):

If you could provide any help with this, that would be hugely appreciated. Thanks 🙂

[Expiscornovus · Accepted solution]

Hi @SamBrent,

You could also use $filter & $select query parameters in the Views method. This way you don't have to use the Filter Array and Apply to each.

Try something like below.

Make sure you use the nometadata headers btw.

_api/web/lists/getbytitle('@{variables('LibraryName')}')/Views?$filter=Title eq '@{variables('ViewName')}'&$select=Id

In the getById('') use the following expression:

body('Send_an_HTTP_request_to_SharePoint_-_GetView')['value'][0]['Id']

[SamBrent]

Brilliant, thank you very much for your help @Expiscornovus 🙂