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Hi All,
I have created an automailer in SAP to get a report sent everyday at a scheduled time. Next I have used Power automate to get the attachement from Mail saved to a location in Sharepoint.
By default SAP exports are in .xls format.
When I try to imort this file to Power BI, i get the error " DataFormat.Error: External table is not in the expected format.
Details:
d11e1ccb-d68c-4623-96dc-23cc93b25b7e.XLS"
Can anyone help
@santoshreddyk95 , you need to open and check the excel if the data is coming in the correct format.
@amitchandak I am able to open the file and see the data. Although I get an error while opening saying that it is in the old format. So excel creates a new file with xlsx extension and saves it in the same folder.
But I want to avoid the manual work of opening the file everyday and saving it as xlsx.
regards,
Santosh