Use Power Automate to export to my desktop

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I already have a button which exports an Excel table to Share Point.

I need to that this button exports the Excel to my desktop just as you download the table with the "three dot icon".

I will be waiting for your response.

Cheers!

[v-yangliu-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi  @Anonymous ,

According to research:

If you want to export data from PowerBI through Power Automate, this is not feasible. Power Automate only supports exporting files to PDF, PPTX or PNG formats, and does not support CSV or XLSX files:

For more information, you could refer to this document:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/powerbi/#export-to-file-for-power-bi-reports 

If you want to export data in Excel through Power Automate, you can try the following:

After you export data to CSV, you could use Flow to extract the data from the CSV file then format it to object, then create rows in Excel table.

There are some ways that could do this, you could refer to this video to learn how to do it:

(2) How to parse a CSV file in Microsoft PowerAutomate (Microsoft Flow) or Azure LogicApps - YouTube

Or there is a more simple way but need to pay, one more option:

Parse a CSV File and Add Content to a SharePoint List (encodian.com)

Best Regards,

Liu Yang

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

[parry2k]

@Anonymous I think it is more of a Power Automate question on how to save the output to the local disk. I would recommend posting it on the Power Automate community forum.'

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