JSON Error copying Planner task with checklist

[Vlaknir]

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to build a flow that copies all tasks from one plan (general onboarding plan) to a new bucket in another plan (individual onboarding plans; each bucket is assigned to one new colleague.

So far, I've managed to create the new buckets and copy all the tasks (only the main tasks), however the flow fails whenever I try to copy the checklists of the tasks.

The error is the following:

The request is invalid:
An unexpected 'StartObject' node was found for property named 'lastModifiedBy' when reading from the JSON reader. A 'PrimitiveValue' node was expected.

It looks like the value 'lastModifiedBy' that the "Get task details from Template Task" step outputs is 'null', which is causing this error.

Does the community have any solutions for this?

[ManishSolanki]

Hi @Vlaknir 

You need to pass the id, title & ischecked property to copy the checklist value from one task to another. Pls use select action to create an array object with those properties and pass the output of select action to the target task. Here is the sample:

Pass the Checklist object dynamically from the "get task details from template task" action in 'From' parameter:

Enter the expression in Map values as shown below:

Key	Value
Title	item()?['value/Title']
isChecked	item()?['value/isChecked']
Id	item()?['id']

Finally, pass the output of select action in the checklist input parameter:

If this helps & solves your problem, please remember to give a 👍 and accept my solution as it will help others in the future.

[Vlaknir]

Hi @ManishSolanki thanks for providing this helpful tip! Unfortunately, when a task does not have any checklist items, the flow now fails with the message

Property checklist in payload has a value that does not match schema.

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@ManishSolanki wrote:

Hi @Vlaknir 

You need to pass the id, title & ischecked property to copy the checklist value from one task to another. Pls use select action to create an array object with those properties and pass the output of select action to the target task. Here is the sample:

Pass the Checklist object dynamically from the "get task details from template task" action in 'From' parameter:

Enter the expression in Map values as shown below:

Key	Value
Title	item()?['value/Title']
isChecked	item()?['value/isChecked']
Id	item()?['id']

Finally, pass the output of select action in the checklist input parameter:

If this helps & solves your problem, please remember to give a 👍 and accept my solution as it will help others in the future.

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@ManishSolanki wrote:

Hi @Vlaknir 

You need to pass the id, title & ischecked property to copy the checklist value from one task to another. Pls use select action to create an array object with those properties and pass the output of select action to the target task. Here is the sample:

Pass the Checklist object dynamically from the "get task details from template task" action in 'From' parameter:

Enter the expression in Map values as shown below:

Key	Value
Title	item()?['value/Title']
isChecked	item()?['value/isChecked']
Id	item()?['id']

Finally, pass the output of select action in the checklist input parameter:

If this helps & solves your problem, please remember to give a 👍 and accept my solution as it will help others in the future.

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[ManishSolanki]

Hi @Vlaknir 

Its working at my end:

Pls verify if you have passed the 'Checklist' object in "From" parameter of select action.

If this helps & solves your problem, please remember to give a 👍 and accept my solution as it will help others in the future.

[Vlaknir]

If I simply pass the Checklist object in the from parameter, I get the following error:

The 'from' property value in the 'select' action inputs is of type 'Object'. The value must be an array.

If however I add brackets [Checklist], then I get the error described above if the checklist is empty.