How to concatenate a multiple select value

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I have a flow where I need to get into the body of an email all the values that are founded in a multi value field of a Sharepoint list. How could I get to concatenate this multiple values into just one string value?

I was trying to concatenate the values as in the picture above, but naive me it didn't work. I'm not able to get the outpute of the compose action out of the apply to each loop. 

Please help on how I could concatenate all the values in this data field. 

[yashag2255 · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous 

A couple of ways you can do this: 

1. Initialize a string variable before the apply to each action and leave the value empty. Apply to each on the multi select column and then add an action to append to string variable and then select the current item in the value here. 

2. Add a compose action and without using the apply to each loop in the compose action, use the expression Join('sharepointcolumnhere', ';') this will join all the choices with ';' as a delimiter.

Hope this helps!

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[v-alzhan-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous ,

Please refer to screenshot below to create the flow:

Best regards,

Alice       

Community Support Team _ Alice Zhang
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[Anonymous]

Thanks @v-alzhan-msft , @yashag2255 !!

It worked perfect!

[Allybartz]

Hello!

I am hoping you can assist me. I am new to Power Automate. 🙂

I am getting this error on the 'Compose' step when utilizing the compose and join expression option
.

"InvalidTemplate. Unable to process template language expressions in action 'Compose' inputs at line '1' and column '14831': 'The template language function 'join' expects its first parameter to be an array. The provided value is of type 'String'. Please see https://aka.ms/logicexpressions#join for usage details.'."

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@yashag2255 wrote:

Hi @Anonymous 

A couple of ways you can do this: 

1. Initialize a string variable before the apply to each action and leave the value empty. Apply to each on the multi select column and then add an action to append to string variable and then select the current item in the value here. 

2. Add a compose action and without using the apply to each loop in the compose action, use the expression Join('sharepointcolumnhere', ';') this will join all the choices with ';' as a delimiter.

Hope this helps!

If this reply has answered your question or solved your issue, please mark this question as answered. Answered questions helps users in the future who may have the same issue or question quickly find a resolution via search. If you liked my response, please consider giving it a thumbs up. THANKS!

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[digitalpenny29]

What does this look like if you have more than one column that has multi select values? I am not an expert, but I am trying to concatenate multiple columns that are in SharePoint.

[BarryEdwards]

Hello, I am using this solution on a flow of my own, but I have 7 multi-select input as I am using it as a form, I have found that I can stack the solution provided for them so far, butt I am wondering if there is a way to have a delimiter added between the composed values to keep them separated as I am taking all the inputs and adding it into a row in excel afterwards.

Solved, I missed the semi colon placed behind the input in the append value

[UweGrunewald]

Dear all, please save my day. I have a multiple-choice column with the content shown below.

I have thoroughly read through this forum, other resources and even asked bing. It all doesn't work to get the desired output:

"Domain, Website, MS365" from it?

What the hell am I doing wrong?

Please help, Uwe

[
{
"@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedReference",
"Id": 0,
"Value": "Domain"
},
{
"@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedReference",
"Id": 1,
"Value": "Website"
},
{
"@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedReference",
"Id": 2,
"Value": "MS365"
}
]