Set workflow variable to permission group

7 years ago
6 January 2017
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igorsp
Scholar
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I have a problem using a Person or Group variable in a workflow. I set the variable to a Manager (field in the current item) or a SharePoint permission group: (TEST) Approval Group. Then I use this variable to assign a task or send an email. If it is set to the Manager it works. If I set it to the permission group it fails incorrectly resolving the name of that permission group (see below: 896;#(TEST) Approval Group). Is this the expected behavior? Interestingly if I set a default for this variable to the permission group it works!

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J

+6

If you set the group as the default value of the variable, does the group name also appear with the prefix "896;#"? The E-Mail action is trying to send an E-Mail to "896" which of course cannot work. Maybe there's a bug which leads to this prefix.

You could also work the a text variable instead of a Person or Group variable, this should also work for your case.

M

Userlevel 3

+9

If you put the group name directly into the send notification (not via a variable), it will work. When you use a variable like in your example, it converts the group into a string that has both it's ID and Name. The send notification can't convert that back into a group. To get this to work, after you set the group variable, do an extra step to remove the group number so that only the name is left. I was able to use a RegEx to remove it. I used the pattern "d*(;#)" with Replace Text, and left the replacement blank. I saved the results in the same variable, and the notification worked.