get custom fields from SharePoint list item

Question

Using the beta SharePoint REST API (using Microsoft Graph ). Would like to get all items for a list, including the content of custom fields.

When I use https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/sites/{site-id}/lists/{list-id}?expand=columns,items(expand=fields) I see (in my case):

• columns containing 32 fields, including standard ones (eg ID , Title , Status ) and the custom ones (eg Next_action )
• fields containing only the default (in my case 23) fields, including id [note it is lower case], Title and Status fields and -as expected- not the custom ones.

The documentation shows an example of getting specific columns . When I use https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/sites/{site-id}/lists/{list-id}/items?expand=fields(select=ID,Title,Status,Next_action)

Then I get an array with all items, and per item the object fields that only contains the property id .

So: the other standard fields ( Title , Status ) and the custom field Next_action do not show up.

How do I get the values for a list of standard and custom fields?

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EDIT: more details about the lists that I have:

A couple of the lists are default ones that have been customized (I believe Tasks, Issues, Risks), others are completely custom (Decisions, Changes). The Tasks lists has versioning.
Some observations:

• Decisions list has no missing fields (=no difference between columns and the actual fields )
• all of them have "missing": ID|Author|Editor|DocIcon|AppAuthor|AppEditor, and fields that are not in the Columns: id|AuthorLookupId|EditorLookupId; both can be explained I guess (note that ID in column and id in field)
• the missing fields are a variety of types: text (rich / plain, single / multi line), number, choice, etc.

Possibly related, when using Flow I create a trigger for "when an item is created or modified", I am then presented with only 2 lists (Changes and Decisions). Missing: Tasks, Risks, Issues.

Tasks

• fields (19): "Title|Predecessors|Priority|Status|PercentComplete|AssignedTo|Body|StartDate|Checkmark|ContentType|Modified|Created|_UIVersionString|Attachments|Edit|LinkTitleNoMenu|LinkTitle|ItemChildCount|FolderChildCount"
• missing (13): " DueDate|RelatedItems|JIRA_id|Progress_notes|Next_action|Waiting_for|Updates | ID|Author|Editor|DocIcon|AppAuthor|AppEditor "
• fields not in Columns (4): " PercentComplete@odata.type | id|AuthorLookupId|EditorLookupId "

Risks

• fields (22): "Title|Status|Category|DueDate|Probability|Impact|Exposure|Cost|Cost_x0020_Exposure|Description|Mitigation_x0020_plan|Trigger|ContentType|Modified|Created|_UIVersionString|Attachments|Edit|LinkTitle|ItemChildCount|FolderChildCount"
• missing (12): " Owner|AssignedTo|Impact_x0020_description|Contingency_x0020_plan|Trigger_x0020_Description|RelatedItems | ID|Author|Editor|DocIcon|AppAuthor|AppEditor "
• fields not in Columns (7): " OwnerLookupId|Probability@odata.type|Impact@odata.type|Cost@odata.type | id|AuthorLookupId|EditorLookupId "

Issues

• fields (16): "ContentType|Title|Modified|Created|_UIVersionString|Attachments|Edit|LinkTitleNoMenu|LinkTitle|ItemChildCount|FolderChildCount|Status|Category|Priority|DueDate|Discussion"
• missing (10): " ID|Author|Editor|DocIcon|AppAuthor|AppEditor | Owner|AssignedTo|Resolution|RelatedItems "
• fields not in Columns (5): " id|AuthorLookupId|EditorLookupId | OwnerLookupId|AssignedToLookupId "

Decisions

• fields (14): "Title|Description|Decided_by|Date_decided|ContentType|Modified|Created|_UIVersionString|Attachments|Edit|LinkTitleNoMenu|LinkTitle|ItemChildCount|FolderChildCount"
• missing (6): " ID|Author|Editor|DocIcon|AppAuthor|AppEditor "
• fields not in Columns (3): " id|AuthorLookupId|EditorLookupId "

Changes

• fields (13): "Title|Status|Priority|ContentType|Modified|Created|_UIVersionString|Attachments|Edit|LinkTitleNoMenu|LinkTitle|ItemChildCount|FolderChildCount"
• missing (14): " Description|Action|Background|Impact|Impact_x0020_delivery_x0020_time|Impact_effort|Impact_functionality|Impact_cost | ID|Author|Editor|DocIcon|AppAuthor|AppEditor "
• fields not in Columns (3): " id|AuthorLookupId|EditorLookupId "

Answer 1

There seems to be a bug in the current /beta endpoint around $expand={field}($select={field}) . I'm seeing similar results.

I am however seeing the complete list of fields when I use:

/beta/sites/{site-id}/lists/{list-id}/items?$expand=fields

I'm also able to return the complete set of columns, items and fields using:

/beta/sites/{site-id}/lists/{list-id}$expand=columns,items($expand=fields)

For the time being, you'll need to pull the entire collection and handle any additional processing in your app. Being a beta release there are several bugs still being worked out. This is why it isn't recommended that this be used for production.