GroupBy and Count

[zmansuri]

Above is my SharePoint list. It's daily entry of candidate who are taking training with us. Daily sessions happens. And for every session attendance is recorded for candidate through choice column of SharePoint.

My Requirement:

Create a flow that will go through the above list and count how many times candidate was absent. There is another list called absent count. If candidate name is not in that list it creates the entry if it is there then just update the absent count. So in that list i have candidate names and how many days they were absent.

PS: This is one time operation so manual trigger is fine.

[Expiscornovus]

Hi @zmansuri,

Just to double check.

Both the registration of the candidate and the presence/absence of a candidate are registered in the same Training_Days list? In other words, the Presence value would be set to no if the candidate is absent?

[zmansuri]

Yeas data is like this:

Name	Presence
John	No
John	Yes
Jane	No
Jane	No

And i want to store it in another list like this:

Name	Presence
John	1
Jane	2

[Expiscornovus · Accepted solution]

Hi @zmansuri,

One approach could be to just create a list view. This way you will get total absent number per Name in a view on the list itself. 

1. Filter on presence is No

2. Group By Name and use a Totals > count

If the view isn't sufficient you can retrieve those values with a Send an HTTP request to SharePoint action by using the RenderListDataAsStream method. Let me know if you need any help with that.