Get metadata full hierarchical path in a flow

[stephaneblas]

Hello everybody,

I hope you can help me. (a poor french IT -> sorry for my english ^^)

I create a sharepoint list with a metadata column.

My taxonomy list is hierarchical list like this :

Country -> county -> town

In my column setting,  in the Display format section, I specify to display the term and its full path in the hierarchy of the term set. 

With a flow, I want to get in a variable the full hierarchical path to save the county of the town in an other column of my list.

I found a solution 2 weeks ago but today It didn't work anymore

I create a flow "when an item is created or modified".  In the log, I see the path with the label property :

{   "@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedTaxonomy",   "TermGuid": "2d87217e-83ab-4b7b-8660-051687c2bf7c",   "WssId": 60,   "Label": "France:2 - Faible:62 - PAS-DE-CALAIS:HABARCQ",   "Path": null,   "Value": "France:2 - Faible:62 - PAS-DE-CALAIS:HABARCQ|2d87217e-83ab-4b7b-8660-051687c2bf7c" }

And now, this is what I see :

{   "@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedTaxonomy",   "TermGuid": "2d87217e-83ab-4b7b-8660-051687c2bf7c",   "WssId": 60,   "Label": "HABARQ",   "Path": null,   "Value": "SAINT-DIZIER|2d87217e-83ab-4b7b-8660-051687c2bf7c" }

I try to delete the column and create it again , I have the same result.

Somebody have an idea to help me?

[tfhegdbn]

Hi ,

Can you share the process of "In my column setting, in the Display format section, I specify to display the term and its full path in the hierarchy of the term set."。

 For this I am a newbie, if you can share the settings of this Process, maybe I can find a place that makes your Flow unsatisfactory.

[stephaneblas]

Hello tfhegdbn,  thanks for your reply.

On my list parameters, I create a metadata column.

It's in french but you can see on the image the parameter "display the term and its full path in the hierarchy of the term set"

On my list, the result is :

My taxonomy  list hierachy :

Country : seismicity level : county : Town

I want to extract on my flow, the county of the town.

[GabrielStJohn]

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[stephaneblas · Accepted solution]

Finally, I found a solution with the hidden list call "TaxonomyHiddenList"

The URL of the list would be like: http://YourSharePointSite/Lists/TaxonomyHiddenList/

In my flow,  I done an "Get Item" from this list and the column "path" return the hierarchical path oh my taxonomy term.

[jkibler]

This saved me, thank you so much!

[Tanis]

Just a quick comment on this - it looks like subsites replicate the Taxonomy but do not maintain the WssId from the root site, so if you are looking these up ensure that you use your subsite address: http://YourSharePointSite/Yoursubsitename/Lists/TaxonomyHiddenList/