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Reading from Excel with hidden columns fails

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Hi,
I'm currently facing an issue with an excel file, which has sometimes hidden columns.

What I'm doing in my flow:

  1. Copy an excel from external sharepoint to my internal one.
  2. Reading a table from that copied file (filter on value of 1 column)
  3. Update an other excel file (own managed) with new entries and proceed workflow

In step 2 somethimes there occurrs an error, when someone has hidden a column - regardless which one.
I recieve a message like:
"Matching of columns in filtered view not possible, number of filtered columns: 42, number of actual columns 44. try to show all columns to use sorting or filtering"


The only workaround I know it to go to the original file - unhide all columns and workflow can be passed successfully.
Is there any other smoother and more automative way? Like a step to just unhide all columns? Or any other idea?

Thanks for any hint.

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  • Danilo-S-A Profile Picture
    3 on at

    Hi there, I was in the same "problem".

    In my approach, I created an Office Script to unhide all the columns and invoke it before the List rows step.

     

    Office Script samples: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/scripts/resources/samples/excel-samples


    Regards,

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