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artp
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Powerautomate / sharepoint folder / new item

Hi everyone 

I have a problem with mix of this three aplication/services:
1. Eveyday I recive mail with excel where is some data, Powerautomate saves this files on Sharepoint folder and this works great
2. I take all files from this folder using PowerQuery and use it in PowerBI

So where is my problem: always when Powerautomate flow saves files in Sharepoint folder new file is marked as 'New Item' and this make sens

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but for Powerquery it's a problem becasue for example tool see 10 files as table type in this Sharepoint folder but the New Item is seen as 'Error'. Print screen below:

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What is intresting - when I go to the sharepoint folder and just open and close last saved files 'New Item' Powerquery starts to see this file as a table not error. 

Do you have any idea what is an issue and how I can resolve my problem? 

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artp
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Hi, thanks a lot for your help. For my model I needed all files in this folder so content column 'Binary' was not useful. 

But I have found solution and reason why PowerQuery saw this Excel file as 'Error' (before manually open). And the issue are empty cels in first row of dataset:

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As you can see cels C1, D1, (...) are empty so Power query saw only column A and B. At this moment my solution is: I created new flow with opens this file and create table range row 6 and all data below. This helped because all data is visible. 

I am not expirenced well but from your perspective is it a casual case that empty cells in Excel can be a issue for Power Query? 🙂

 

Every time source data is provided by humans (especially Excel) you have to expect things like this to happen and harden your code accordingly.

lbendlin
Super User
Super User

It may be a bug, but is it a problem?  All you need is the Content column.

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