Sharepoint multi choice column, check if value exists in the selections.

[Anonymous]

Hi!

so, I'm pulling in data from a SharePoint list and have a multi select column it is just a choice of 1-12 to indicate months and trying to check if the current month is in the list but the "contains" in the condition here: 

is always evaluating to false

I even did a join operation and emailed it to myself to check if the value is correct and it looks like it is

the 2 twos is just grabbing this month and then I wanted to cast it to an int to check if it changed at all.

but I can't see a reason why it wouldn't be comparing the two

[Hardesh15]

@Anonymous  pls check your condition in left side. This is a variable which holding month value. What is the type of variable here?

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@Hardesh

[tom_riha · Accepted solution]

Hello @Anonymous ,

with multiple choice columns it's a bit more complicated than simple 'contains' as the column doesn't contain just the values, but whole objects with the value (@odata.type, Id and Value).

To check if a value is selected in a multiple choice column, I'd initialize a boolean variable and set it to 'false', then loop through all the values ('Choice Value' dynamic content) and compare it with the value. If it's equal, set the variable to 'true'. At the end of the loop, the variable will be either 'false' (not contains) or 'true' (value was among the choices).

And don't use the int(...) expression for the value, try string(...) or nothing instead as the column/array values are of a string type by default.