What is claims when using a Person column in SharePoint?

[cardinalpipkin]

Can someone explain to me what claims are when you want to action on a Person column in SharePoint?

[manuelstgomes · Accepted solution]

HI @cardinalpipkin 

"Claims" is an object that contains the information of a person. It's the way Power Automate get's the information from SharePoint. But if you want to insert a value in this column you can simply include an email in your Power Automate and the value is automatically converted to a "Claims" object.

Makes sense?

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[manuelstgomes]

Hey @cardinalpipkin 

Is it clear? Do you need help?

Cheers
Manuel

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[Ales]

I need help though. I am trying to update file properties for a person column by entering email. This results in an error however

My flow looks like this

[rico98]

Hi,

You will need an array of objects that look like this to insert the Claims:

[
{
"Claims": "ricx23@gmail.com"
},
{
"Claims": "svc_account@gmail.com"
}
]