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Trying to build a report which feeds info from a SharePoint List
The column is a user value, which is a 'Person' column on SharePoint
I clicked into the column and selected 'Extract Values'
The error that comes up afterwards is 'Expression.Error: We cannot convert a value of type Record to type Text.'
When I click the value 'List' and enter 'Record', the name of the person appears under 'title', but I can't seem to get this feed into the list
Any assistance is greatly appreciated
Hi @Anonymous
Can you show what is in the list with an image or a screenshot (remember to remove sensitive info)? Is it a list containing records?
If your list column is similar to below and you want to extract names from all records in a list to the original table,
you can add a custom column with below code. You will get a list of title names on every row. Then expand it to new rows or extract values into the same cell per your need.
= let titleList = [Column1] in List.Transform({0..(List.Count([Column1])-1)}, each titleList{_}[Title])
Sample table code:
let
Source = {{[Title="Jack"],[Title="James"],[Title="Janey"]}},
#"Converted to Table" = Table.FromList(Source, Splitter.SplitByNothing(), null, null, ExtraValues.Error),
#"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Converted to Table", "Custom", each let titleList = [Column1] in List.Transform({0..(List.Count([Column1])-1)}, each titleList{_}[Title]))
in
#"Added Custom"
Best Regards,
Community Support Team _ Jing
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