Help using Flow to update row in Excel

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Posted on by mowgli512

Hi,

I have set up flow with Excel to send an email when the 'Status' of a cell is set to "Open".

I have also set up a column called 'Receipt' to automatically update with the text "Email Sent" as soon as an email is sent for that particular row. This is to avoid resending an email for the same row repeatedly.

The problem for me is when I'm using the "update a row" action, it only seems to update the first row with the text "Email Sent" and not any subsequent rows. I am not sure how to fix this, can someone please help?

See flow, link below:
https://imgur.com/a/05IUInV

Thanks in advance!

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v-yuazh-msft on at

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Hi @mowgli512,

I afraid that your flow run failed because you fill in the string "Email Sent" in the "Key Value" field in the "Update a row" action, however, the "Receipt" column values are not always "Email Sent".

Please enter the "Receipt" dynamic content of the "List rows present in a table" action in the "Key Value" field.

Best regards,

Alice

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mowgli512 51 on at

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Hi Alice,

Just tried it, but it seems to only update "Email Sent" in the first row. When the check is running on the second row for instance, the first row cell gets updated instead of the second row cell.

https://imgur.com/a/TehzWzi

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Hi @mowgli512,

The Key Column couldn't be modified.

If you would modify the "Receipt" column, you could update the Key Column to "Status" and modify the Key Value to "Status" dynamic content on your side:

Please let me know if your problem could be solved.

Best regards,

Alice

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mowgli512 51 on at

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Tried this now, but "Email Sent" is only getting updated in the first row and not for any subsequent rows.

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Hi @mowgli512,

It works on my side.

Please share the screenshot of the configuration of your flow.

Best regards,

Alice

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mowgli512 51 on at

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There you go.

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Hi @mowgli512,

Your flow looks with no problem,

Please check from the run history of your flow to see if every row has run in to the If no branch of your Condition2.

Also Please take a try to remove all condition to check if it works.

Best regards,

Alice

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mowgli512 51 on at

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I have checked the flow history and it shows successful – reason being it updates the cell in row 1 instead of row 2.
I have even tried removing one condition and I still have the same issue.

How can I get 'update row' to update a cell in the current row instead of the first row?

See flow history for row2 below:

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mowgli512 51 on at

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OK, I got it!

The problem was the "Key Value" was same for all the rows and so it was only updating the first row. I now changed the Key Column to "#" which contains unique serial numbers and Key Value to dynamic '#' and it works.

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Hi mowgli512

U can share how stayed your flow ?

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