Patch to a sharepoint Person Column with only the persons email address to start with.

[AtomicPete]

I have a form with a textinput box that will contain the email address of one of my organisations Office365 users.

I need to use the Patch function to patch this textinput box to a new record in a sharepoint list person column. This column should record the user who's email address was in the textinput box but I get an error message about the argument not matching the record type. I have tried both of the following approaches with the Patch function unsuccessfully.

Patch('MyList', Defaults('MyList'), Employee: UserEmailTextInput.Text)

Patch('MyList', Defaults('MyList'), Employee: Office365Users.SearchUser({searchTerm:UserEmailTextInput.Text}).DisplayName)

Neither works. Any solutions much appreciated.

[ZabiBabar]

Hi @AtomicPete ,

 I think you are on the right track with this:

Patch('MyList', Defaults('MyList'), Employee: Office365Users.SearchUser({searchTerm:UserEmailTextInput.Text}).DisplayName)

Maybe you can try:

Patch(
  'MyList', 
  Defaults('MyList'), 
  Employee: First(Office365Users.SearchUser({searchTerm: UserEmailTextInput.Text})
  )
)

 
However, I am not aware what is required to create an employee of people type. You can take a look at this link to see how you can patch people field. https://www.about365.nl/2018/11/01/handling-sharepoint-lookup-and-people-fields-in-powerapps/

Scroll down to patching people fields!

Best,
Zabi
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[RezaDorrani]

Hi @AtomicPete 

To Patch to SharePoint person column you need to provide specific object for person type column

Check this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9ChYuTdNd4

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[v-bofeng-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @AtomicPete :

Could you tell me if the Employee field allows multiple selections?

I assume Employee do not allows multiple selections.

Firstly, I want to explain why you can not update the Employee field.

The point is you need to use a specific array to update the person field.

Secondly,please try this solutin:

1\add an Office365 users connection.

2\please try this code

Patch('MyList', Defaults('MyList'),{Employee:{
            '@odata.type': "#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedUser",
            Department: "",
            Claims: "i:0#.f|membership|" & UserEmailTextInput.Text,
            DisplayName: Office365Users.UserProfileV2(UserEmailTextInput.Text).displayName,
            Email: UserEmailTextInput.Text,
            JobTitle: "",
            Picture: ""
        }
})

Best Regards,

Bof

[AtomicPete]

Thanks @v-bofeng-msft ,

Your first section of code worked. I was not aware that the people columns in a Sharepoint list require such a complicated bit of code to patch to. All working now.

[Caldwell1]

Your video was awesome regarding Patching to a Person Column. But in the case of let’s say an ‘Admin List’ - and I want to patch users to that list who should have Admin Access, how can I patch other users names to that Admin List using the Person Column?

Any help is much appreciated!

Thanks!

Jason

[kasfour]

@v-bofeng-msft , I need your help please. I have the same issue, where I want to patch the below list, but I do not seem to get the right formula for the AccountMgr_x002e__x002f_Head: (Which is a Person type in the ShP. List)

Patch(
'Emp.Resign-List',
Defaults('Emp.Resign-List'),
{
RequiredStatus:Dropdown3.Selected.Value,
HITSID:HITSIDinput.Text,
Name:NAMEinput.Text,
JobTitle:JOBTITLEinput.Text,
Campaign_x002f_Dept_x002e_:CAMPAIGNinput.Text,
AccountMgr_x002e__x002f_Head:MGRinput.Text})