Get Email from a people picker Field in MS Flow(Power Automate) - SharePoint Online

Question

I have two lists in SharePoint Online, one to capture the data and another one where I have saved the value of approver in a people picker column.

Now I want the value of the people picker column in a variable so that I can set an approval action for them.

I have created a variable type object and I'm getting the below value in JSON format. I'm kind of new to Json hence I'm not aware how to get the email id from the json in MS FLOW. Below is the json copied for ref.

{"@odata.type":"#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedUser","Claims":"i:0#.f|membership|test@xx.com","DisplayName":"xx xx","Email":"xx.xx@xxxx.com","Picture":"https://xxxxx.sharepoint.com/sites/xxxxx/_layouts/15/UserPhoto.aspx?Size=L&AccountName=xx.xx@xxxx.com","Department":null,"JobTitle":null}

Can some one please help me to get the email id value in a var from the above JSON in MS FLow.

Any help on this will be appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

For Person or Group column:

1. In your flow add "Parse JSON" action found under Data Operation
2. For Content use the SharePoint field/column of type Person or Group (e.g. AssignedTo)
3. For Schema use the following.

{
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
        "@@odata.type": {
            "type": "string"
        },
        "Claims": {
            "type": "string"
        },
        "DisplayName": {
            "type": "string"
        },
        "Email": {
            "type": "string"
        },
        "Picture": {
            "type": "string"
        },
        "Department": {
            "type": "string"
        },
        "JobTitle": {
            "type": "string"
        }
    }
}

4. Now, for the subsequent actions such as Grant access to an item, you can use email can be found under Parse JSON in the Dynamic Content