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Using system job owner in workflow designer

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Hello,

I am trying to achieve the following :

We have several workflows triggered by User when they click on buttons. Is there a way to retrieve the User that launched the associated job? I can see the name in the "Owner" field of the system job record, but can't seem to retrieve it within the workflow itself (I expected to do it similarly to the Process execution time).

The idea is, within a workflow, to set a field a field value to the user that launched the iteration of the workflow.

Is there any way to achieve this?

Thanks.

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RE: Using system job owner in workflow designer

I'll keep it in mind for "new" needs but rewrighting all of our workflows through PowerAutomate is not something we can afford at the moment.

I was thinking of maybe splitting the "update entity" action of the workflow in 2. First, updating all non user fields (which should then trigger the modification on "modyfied by" field with the user that launched the workflow).

And then, within the same workflow but in a different action, update the user field with the "modified by" value.

Would it work?
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RE: Using system job owner in workflow designer

Hi,

There is no system job entity in the target entity list of workflow.

Why not consider to create a flow with Power Automate to achieve your request?