Updating Task Checklist upon completion of Flow

[poweruser11]

Hi all,

I'm trying to get my Automate to update a checklist on my planner as complete. 

Planner:

Bucket Task A

Task A Q1: Checklist A, Checklist B, Checklist C

Task A Q2: Checklist A, Checklist B, Checklist C

Bucket Task B

Task B Q1: Checklist A, Checklist B, Checklist C

Task B Q2: Checklist A, Checklist B, Checklist C

Task A name and Quarter Name will also be available on my Power Automate as an input from a list. I want to take these input fields, match it to the planner task title for the appropriate Quarter, and mark Checklist A and Checklist B as complete. Checklist C is not to be touched.

I've been trying to use 'Get plan details' and 'Update task details' but failing to achieve what I need, so any advice would be great. The trigger for this will be on a list, where a 'button' will be marked as 'true'. 

Visual context: The fields circled will be available to planner from a SharePoint list.

[v-yiwenxie-msft]

Hi @poweruser11 

You will need to use ‘List buckets’ and ‘List tasks’ in top level and ‘Get task details’ in nested action.

‘List bucket’ is used to get the two buckets ‘Task A’ and ‘Task B’.

‘List tasks’ is used to get tasks names.

‘Get task details’ is used to get checklist Id for these two tasks ‘Report Q1’ and ‘Report Q2’.

The whole flow is:

The detailed steps for ‘If yes’ in ‘Condition’:

The expression in ‘filter array’:

@and(equals(item()?['title'], 'Report Q1'), equals(item()?['bucketId'], items('Apply_to_each')?['id']))

The ‘filter array’ is used to filter out the tasks in the two buckets ‘Task A’ and ‘Task B’, and to filter out the tasks named ‘Report Q1’.

The detailed steps for ‘Apply to each 3’:

Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Kira Xie
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[poweruser11]

Hello, this is great and seems like the perfect solution! However, I get a save error on this one. I have used the same expression in 'filter array' just changed the Report Name to the actual name.

Flow save failed with code 'InvalidTemplate' and message 'The template validation failed: 'The inputs of template action 'Filter_array' at line '1 and column '13970' is invalid. Action 'Apply_to_each' must be a parent 'foreach' scope of action 'Filter_array' to be referenced by 'repeatItems' or 'items' functions

[poweruser11]

Apologies for the multiple edits - wouldn't let me post the reply fully!

[v-yiwenxie-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @poweruser11 

If you use ‘items’ function, then you should put ‘filter array’ into an ’Apply to each’ action.

The error says you didn’t put filter array into a ‘Apply to each’ action.

For more info about items(), please go to the link: Reference guide for functions in expressions - Azure Logic Apps | Microsoft Docs

Please reference the following steps:

If this still doesn’t work, could you please take screenshots of your detailed flow and the error details?

Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Kira Xie
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[Rushi_Chandak]

To Update the Checklist use the action "Update Task Details "

In this task at bottom you can see :

So just Create the checklist and  Update the Checklist from here: