I’m making a Power Query (M Code) that combines all Sheets in Workbooks stored in a folder. The logic is the following
Read folder content
Form a list of Workbooks(Sheets) within
Invoke a Function to “Format” content of each Sheet to append the records in a consolidated table
The invoked Function on every Sheet should:
Identify where the “Titles" Row is located
Remove “n” records until “Titles" Row
Remap “Titles" to a standard Name from HeaderMap table
Reorder the columns according to HeaderMap table
Promote the “Titles” Row to Columns Headers
Change column types according to HeaderMap table
Remove “Blank” records
The caveat is that I may encounter Sheets that have no useful information. I need to peek inside the Sheet to verify if valid content and then execute the function to format. How can I Skip the Sheet when consolidating all tables? Something like
Identify indexed row where the “Titles” are located
If (no valid “Titles” found) then Skip Sheet
else (continue with remaining steps)
Thank you in advance
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I have 2 SharePoint sites (SiteA and SiteB) In siteA I have an excel file called LocationA, when this file is edited (rows added, rows edited or rows deleted) I want to reflect these changes in another excel file called LocationB which is stored in SiteB (I have not added the delete operation yet but suggestions on how I might do so are welcomed).
The issue is that the flow is adding rows instead of updating the existing rows in LocationB.
Please find my flow below (it is running without errors but the output is the problem)
Note
The expression in the filter array is string(items('Apply_to_each')?['ID']) which changes the ID field to String
The expression in condition 2 is empty(body('Filter_array')) this condition checks if the list item exists in excel
Because you are using the action to add a row in the power automate, you need to change the action for example, Update a row. That will work.
I would like to copy data from excel and replace text in word document.
However the cell references that contain data are NOT fixed as it depends on the number of debtors and the number of table rows the user wants.
Any help would be appreciated!
You can try reading the excel data using Read Range Activity and then Lookup into that datatable for the exact values that you want to replace.
And you can use read the Word File and replace the required values in Word file from the Datatable.
I have a workbook with multiple pages that need to get combined, i.e. stacked, into one table. While they have many similar column names, they do not all have the same columns and the column order differs. Because of this I cannot use the inherent merge functionality because it uses column order. Table.Combine will solve the problem, but I cannot figure out to create a statement that will use the "each" mechanic to do that.
For each worksheet in x workbook
Table.Combine(prior sheet, next sheet)
return all sheets stacked.
Would someone please help?
If you load your workbook with Excel.Workbook you can choose the Sheet Kind (instead of Table or DefinedName kinds) and ignore the sheet names.
let
Source = Excel.Workbook(File.Contents("C:\Path\To\File\FileName.xlsx"), null, true),
#"Filter Sheets" = Table.SelectRows(Source, each [Kind] = "Sheet"),
#"Promote Headers" = Table.TransformColumns(#"Filter Sheets", {{"Data", each Table.PromoteHeaders(_, [PromoteAllScalars=true])}}),
#"Combine Sheets" = Table.Combine(#"Promote Headers"[Data])
in
#"Combine Sheets"
Load each table into Power Query as a separate query
fix up the column names as needed for each individual query
save each query as a connection
in one of the queries (or in a separate query) use the Append command to append all the fixed up queries that now have the same column names.
I have joined some data from HDFS with some data from an Oracle DW, which is working fine, but I cant seem to add any new columns to this sheet. To add columns for calculated fields etc I have to duplicate the sheet and do it there - this doesn't seem overly efficient.
Am I doing something wrong here or can you not add columns to a join result sheet?
... but I cant seem to add any new columns to this sheet.
Right. It will not be possible to add columns to a JoinedSheet. It is a new data set containing columns from two or more sheets based on a key column which you defined.
... or can you not add columns to a join result sheet?
It will be necessary to reference these data as input for a new Worksheet by Duplicating Worksheet.
Another approach could be using datameer rest-api. You can get the content of the workbook in json format and add columns manually or by implementing a simple script, then update the workbook with changed json file.
I have a couple of questions on reading data from excel sheet using vbscript code and storing
them in a dictionary object.
1) This is more excel specific. Can I do Data filtering on an excel based on what I select in a master column. For Ex: I have a column name TicketType which has a list of values namely Type1, Type2, Type3. If I select Type1, the data in the remaining columns should show data specific to Type 1, when I select Type2, the remaining columns should change to data specific to Type2.
2) If point one is possible in excel, I would want to use VBScript to select the value first in the master column and then read the filtered data in to a dictionary. I would request for some help here. My whole idea is not to create more rows and instead use one single row and keep filtering and reading.
Thanks
Srinivas