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Send Emails to Users in a SharePoint Online Person Field with Multiple Selections

  • January 29, 2026
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bamaeric
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I’m using Nintex Workflow online to send an email to users that are entered into a SharePoint online Person field that allows multiple selections.

I have a SharePoint list column named “Ship To Persons” that is a “Person or Group” column set to allow multiple selections. I’m also using a Nintex Forms for O365 form on the list. I’ve got a workflow that needs to send out an email with the To property being the “Ship To Persons” column.

If I enter only one person in that field, then the workflow runs successfully. When I add two or more users to that field, then the workflow fails at that email action.

Is there something I can do on the forms or workflow side to accomplish this?

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  • Nintex Employee
  • February 2, 2026

Hi ​@bamaeric 

You could use the REST API to do this.  the call would look something like:

_api/web/lists/GetByTitle(‘{MyListName}')/items({ID})?$select={MyUserColumn}/EMail&$expand={MyUserColumn}

Then parse the return for the email addresses (if you specify a JSON return the JSONPath expression would be something like $..EMail

That will work as long as you’re ertain all the assigned users in the column would have email addresses, otherwise it returns an error.  If you’re concerned about that then leveraging the graph API would be a better approach.  That would be something like 

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/sites/{SiteID}/lists/{ListID}/items?$filter={filter}&$expand=fields($select=Title,MyUserColumn)


MillaZ
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  • Nintex Employee
  • February 9, 2026

Hi Eric ​@bamaeric 
Did this response answer your question? 


bamaeric
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  • Apprentice
  • February 19, 2026

Hi ​@brent_read 

Your response helped me figure it out. I was able to create a component workflow in Nintex Workflow to output a delimited string of emails that I can use in the Email action. Also by setting up a component workflow, I can call it from any other workflows that need this functionality.

I am working on a blog post (and possibly a video) about this in the near future.