Create individual tasks from multi-select column

[CherishChris]

I have three lists: Client Task, ClientStatus, FormLinks.  Here is what I would like the flow to do:

Step 1: Trigger is "For a selected item"

Step 2: Input text - multiple selections would have a LONG list of forms:  form1, form2, form3, etc.  (I am manually populating this now, but I wish this can be automatically generated from FormLinks

Step3:  The flow would update ClientStatus with Form1, Form2, and Form3 under a column called "Forms" in Bobby's row

Step 4: Three individual items titled "Form1", "Form2", "Form3" would be created in ClientTask, IF the specific task does not exist for Bobby already.

Step 5: Generate and send an email to Bobby with links for each form he hasn't filled and the links would be automatically populated from FormLists 

I am continuously stuck on are:

1. How to retrieve input from the initial "For a selected item"  "Text Input: Multiselect list of options". I don't know how to extract the selected options individually. 

2. If the list of options is short, I know how to use conditions to create/update items (If option is true, create item), but in this case, the list is very long and there are other functions as well.  I am also hoping for a different method.

I also tried powerapp, but was stuck on the same problem as #1 and having difficulty retrieving values from FormLists .

Thank you for the help!

 

[Rhiassuring]

Hi there, 

Before we dive into the next part, I think you should probably go over to the PowerApps community and get the FormList dropdown working, and have it tied to your list - I don't suspect it's difficult for those guys (but I have no idea, I don't know PowerApps.)

The answer we give you for dealing with multi-choice values will be quite different based on what you use, since MS Forms will give you back the choices in a ["Something","Something"] type format, that you'd just replace and then split. With PowerApps / the lookup list, you'll likely return the options in an array and it'll be much cleaner to work with.

The rest of what you're asking isn't too bad - it is just updating a multi-select column in SharePoint, which you can do by creating an array. (Which might already come back ready to go, from PowerApps.) 

And then a For Each from the array, to check for a current task, and creation of the task if not found.

Maybe I'll go figure out how to do this in PowerApps ... I've been scared to start with it...