Filtering Sharpoint List Data using ODATA with persons field in Flows

[satya]

i have a Sharepoint list with DelegationFrom(Person field), in flow instead of retrieving all the items i need to retrive the one item.  i added GetItems condition, in filter Query, i have given DelegationFrom eq Person name of another get items. could you please help me how query persons field

i am getting error message as below

  "status": 400,
  "message": "The expression \"DelegationFrom eq venkat patamsetti\" is not valid.\r\nclientRequestId: 9c48198a-848e-4886-8d99-9afde4fab2fb\r\nserviceRequestId: 9242959e-f064-0000-128e-33497451b6e9"

[v-micsh-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @satya,

I am afraid the Filter Query is not supported for Person Field usage.

To work with Person field in SharePoint List through the REST Call, we need to take use of the $Expand function within OData, while currently only the following is supported:

$filter

$orderby

$top

See reference:

SharePoint connection

Regards,

Michael

[Rodolfo1840]

Is still not possible ?

[hubertlam]

It's possible, but a bit fiddly.

Our context: getting a name match from the Internal Phone List which is hosted on SharePoint from a form. It's to determine someone's teaching faculty by looking up the Internal Phone List from their form submission.

1. Get the items
   
2. Use the Filter action so that the Email address from the list, matches the one on the form
   
3. Use the Select action to fish out the KLA, for this I had to use the expression item()?['Main_x0020_faculty']?['Value'] manually to get the different Main Faculty that the person is assigned to.
   
4. Did one single run on the flow to get some sample JSON data so that it can be parsed and the KLA map can be shoved into a variable:
   
5. Finally, write the KLA to the PersonKLA variable:
   

[i_power]

the question and answers are a little old, but I'll add an answer in case anyone else stumbles across this post and thinks they can't use an OData filter and must get all items and then filter on the results.

In short, you can filter GetItems on a person column. You can do it by "EMail" (note capitalization), for example e.g. (assume column is called "Person"):

[tcvall86]

@i_power 
Thanks for that answer, stumbled on top of this and found your query. Out of curiosity. How did you figure out that it required to be EMail?

[angreen71]

Thanks for this. It's been driving me mad!