How to automatically save Excel attachment in outlook and save to sharepoint list

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Hello Everyone,

Looking on help on how to save an Excel attachment that sent daily through email and save it to one Sharepoint list.

-Sharepoint list has the same headers as Excel attachment

-Need new items copied from email Excel attachment to replace and delete any old items on the share-point list to make sure I always have the most updated information.

-Same sender and email subject

Any idea how to use power automate to do this?

Thank you!

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manuelstgomes 6,625 on at

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Hi @Sahara22

It's not a simple Flow, but we can try to do it. Do you already have something built?

I would do the following:

Get all attachments and save them into a temporary folder. Here's how to save all attachments when an email arrives. https://manueltgomes.com/microsoft/powerautomate/save-all-attachments-when-an-email-arrives/

Then, open and get the data using the "Get a row" action for each of them. Here's how to access a dynamic path in Excel. https://manueltgomes.com/microsoft/powerautomate/how-to-access-dynamic-path-excel/

This is the part is gets tricky. How do you know it's an "old item"? Does it have a common ID? The same name? What's the field that you can say that the row in Excel and the row in SharePoint list is the same? With that information, you can do a "Get Items" in your SharePoint list and check if that item exists or not.

If the item doesn't exist You can use the "Create Item" action to add the rows to your SharePoint list for each row.

If the item exists you can do an "Update Item" with the new information.

Is this what you need?

Cheers
Manuel

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Sahara22 568 on at

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Hello @manuelstgomes ,

Thank you for all your help.

The list is a roster of names and different departments there in. whole list changes daily but there are times that it could be the same employees name there. The main header names though is always the same.

I will try you method and get back to you.

Thanks!

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Sahara22 568 on at

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So for the "/" where is it saving or do i need to save it to a file? also, for get a row, it is an excel sheet but then i need it send over to the sharepoint list.

Is there away I can save the excel sheet that comes in the email attachment in a file in the one drive and everytime a new email comes have it replace automatically? maybe thats easier?

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Sahara22 568 on at

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@manuelstgomes

I actually figured it out, file is replaced because its the same file name, so that works.

The only thing is now the file is a list, not formatted as a table. Anyway power automate can download and format as table?

Thank you again for all your help!

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Sahara22 568 on at

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@manuelstgomes

I figured that part to! thank you again for all your help!

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