Planner + Flow - Create a Task and adding Labels from completed Task

[barrylam]

Hi all,

First time really diving into Flow. I've almost got the Flow I want.

Basically, i'm creating an annual calendar within Planner. What i want to happen is:

When a task is completed:

1. A new task is created with the same title, description

2. The start/due date is moved exactly one year later

3. The label from the original task is also added to the new task

I have everything except #3 working. I figure the label settings below is where I need to work in. However when i try to enter the custom values I think it should be (Dynamic Content -> When a task completed -> Pink) and so on, the flow gets stuck on running forever and never finishes. 

[MarvinBangert]

Hey @barrylam 

can you please check again if your task really has a label "pink"? If it has no label assigned, the value will be empty, and your flow will stuck on this.

Does this help you? Otherwise please give me some more information.

Best regards
Marvin

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[barrylam]

The one test task I tried does have pink.

Actually that might be a clue. When I only input something in the first category ("Pink") and I complete a pink task it seems to work. When I select more than one (e.g. Pink and Red) in Flow, and choose the pink task, it gets stuck. Hope that makes sense. 

If that's the case, how should i go about this?

[MarvinBangert · Accepted solution]

Yes, maybe you should consider using an expression like this:

not(empty(string(triggerOutputs()?['body/appliedCategories/category1'])))

it checks if a category is empty, "Category1" = "Pink" (a complete list you will find here): Planner - Connectors | Microsoft Docs

But the empty() expressions needs a string, array or object, so we transform our boolean (true / false) into a string. The empty() will return if the string is empty, so it would set the label, but we want to have it the other way around (if empty = no label, if not empty = label) so we add a not() to turn the output from true to false or false to true.

So you would need to add this function in every possible label using the correct "Category".

Does this help you? Otherwise please give me some more information.

Best regards
Marvin

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[zacheryyyy]

I am having a similar issue, I am trying to attach identifying data to a planner task. So I have edited the label to contain the ID number, my end goal is to automate an email to the recipient associated with that ID once the task is complete. That doesn't work with the true/false 

Is there a way to pull the number from the label (below) & use that as the key value? Assuming that would trigger the email address for that row and then flow into that. @MarvinBangert let me know what you think?