Switch

[NurNina]

Hi,I use Power Automate to submit data from Microsoft Form to dataverse. I included switch for a multichoice field:

However, I cannot update the choice chosen into dataverse because it said no case contains a matching value, but obviously in Case1: IGF in the Private Sector is the same as the value from Form. 

[ekarim2020]

It seems that the Switch is trying to match the text including quotes "[IGF in the Private Sector]" ?

Do you mean to check for just the text IGF in the Private Sector

If the value is coming from an array, you will need to extract the first element of the array and use that in the Switch:

Ellis
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[NurNina]

@ekarim2020 thanks for the reply.

It's actually getting response from multiple choice of question from microsoft form:

how do I pass multichoice string to a multichoice field in dataverse?or do I need to change it to textfield? 

[ekarim2020]

Because the form field is a multiple choice field, the response is going to be returned as a string:

For a multi-choice field we could create an array of items from the responses. We could then loop through each item (Apple, Pear, Banana, Manago...), and use the Switch action to act on each response.

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[NurNina]

@ekarim2020 so can I use switch to pass the choices to an optionset (multichoice) field inside the dataverse? 

[ekarim2020]

Yes, it would be possible to update a Dataverse Optionset/Choice. Although I rarely work with Dataverse I have updated an Optionset/Choice field in the past. It did involve more work than I was expecting! Still, we can give it a shot and maybe other experts can chip in if we get stuck.

Looking back at that old flow, we will need the Table name that needs to be updated:

We will need a way to update the rows, such as a Unique Identifier:

And you will also need the Optionset/Choice name and values. In this example below, the FruitChoice field is a multi-choice (Optionset) field, and the user can select from the values Apple, Pear, Banana or Mango:

However, inside Dataverse the values Apple, Pear, Banana or Mango values are represented by integer values called attributevalue . We will need these integer values in order to set the Optionset/Choice field.

Example:

  "Apple": 544500000

  "Pear": 544500001

  "Banana": 544500002

  "Mango": 544500003

Setting the Optionset/Choice field value example:

Sample run-time output:

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[NurNina]

@ekarim2020 thanks for the help! but how do I convert the response to integer to pass it to dataverse? I've read something about int function but I don't really get the idea how to convert the response to integer by using the int function. 

[ekarim2020]

Although the choice values are integers (or appear to be integers), the multi-Choice column in Dataverse takes a string as the example below illustrates:

This is the sample output from the Update a row action:

See the Image below which shows data from the demo Dataverse table, and the FruitChoice column which is now set to Apple and Mango by the demo flow:

To get the integer values for the multi-choice column you will need to view the choice column and its options. You can do this from the Data menu from the flow as shown below:

Using the image below as a reference: Select the (1) Data menu, (2) Choices menu, (3) Select your choice field. In my example, the choice field is called FruitChoice. Next (4) select the three dots ... next to one of the choice values (eg. choice Apple), then (5) click View more:

The choice value for Apple is 544500000 - unfortunately Dataverse displays this as 544,500,000:

Now you can get all the values for the multi-choice column.

Alternatively we could, with some work, write a flow to get all the multi-choice column values for us. We wouldn't need to hard-code any choice values in the flow, and when a new choice were added, we could also get its value dynamically.  We would map the choice to its value so that we could specify a choice and we could get back the choice value, for example:

Create a JSON object mapping choice to value:
{
  "Apple":  544500000,
  "Pear":   544500001,
  "Banana": 544500002,
  "Mango":  544500003
}

Then use an expressions to get the choice value:
outputs('Compose_Mapped_Table')?[<choice>] 	

outputs('Compose_Mapped_Table')?['Apple'] 	--> 544500000
outputs('Compose_Mapped_Table')?['Pear'] 	--> 544500001
outputs('Compose_Mapped_Table')?['Banana'] 	--> 544500002
outputs('Compose_Mapped_Table')?['Mango'] 	--> 544500003

There may be a better way to to all of this, but I hope this helps.

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