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Power Automate - Using Flows
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The flow runs successfully but some cells in excel are empty

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Posted on 4 Dec 2023 20:03:51 by 22

I recently updated an old flow with a new MS Form. The old form suddenly disappeared. I wanted to use my old Excel file since I have already almost 2000 entries. 

The flow ran successfully, but the cells are empty, except for ID and Timestamp.

All the fields in Get Response Details are filled out, but inputs in "Add a row into a table" show null.

 

Any idea how to fix it? 

 

Thank you in advance.

 

  • AnyaB Profile Picture
    22 on 04 Dec 2023 at 21:21:56
    Re: The flow runs successfully but some cells in excel are empty

    OMG! I'm an idiot, I updated my new flow, instead of the repurposed one, which was in the "shared with me tab" đꙄ  OK, so I updated the correct flow this time and it works like a charm! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

     

  • wskinnermctc Profile Picture
    6,517 Moderator on 04 Dec 2023 at 21:07:43
    Re: The flow runs successfully but some cells in excel are empty

    @AnyaB It looks like the flow did fill out the Excel with the form responses. Your screenshot shows there are values "test" where it previously said null

     

    wskinnermctc_1-1701724034334.png

     

    Did you give the Excel workbook time to update?

  • AnyaB Profile Picture
    22 on 04 Dec 2023 at 21:01:02
    Re: The flow runs successfully but some cells in excel are empty

    Ok, I did that, and ran flow successfully, but the cells are still empty, except for the first two again.

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    wskinnermctc Profile Picture
    6,517 Moderator on 04 Dec 2023 at 20:51:11
    Re: The flow runs successfully but some cells in excel are empty

    Move the "Add Row to a Table" up into the "For Each" right under Get Response Details.

     

    There should not be a second "For_Each_1"

     

    Here is a screenshot

    wskinnermctc_0-1701723278467.png

     

  • AnyaB Profile Picture
    22 on 04 Dec 2023 at 20:45:56
    Re: The flow runs successfully but some cells in excel are empty

    Thank you again 🙂 I have no idea how to do it. Do I need to delete the last two steps (attached) to then recreate them with apply to each? Or is it a way to update without deleting?

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    wskinnermctc Profile Picture
    6,517 Moderator on 04 Dec 2023 at 20:38:43
    Re: The flow runs successfully but some cells in excel are empty

    Oh ok, thank you for showing the error, that is a different problem.

     

    This issue seems to have started when the Power Automate Cloud Flows updated to primarily using Co-Pilot view.

     

    I don't know why it changed, and it doesn't seem to be a problem for all flows or people.

     

    Basically it wants you to put all of the form response steps inside of an apply to each. Flows used to work like that but then changed years ago, now it seems like it cant decided how it should run.

  • AnyaB Profile Picture
    22 on 04 Dec 2023 at 20:37:51
    Re: The flow runs successfully but some cells in excel are empty

    adding the screenshot

  • AnyaB Profile Picture
    22 on 04 Dec 2023 at 20:35:57
    Re: The flow runs successfully but some cells in excel are empty

    It cut off the first sentence for some reason. I thanked you for the response 🙂

  • AnyaB Profile Picture
    22 on 04 Dec 2023 at 20:34:54
    Re: The flow runs successfully but some cells in excel are empty

     response. I followed your directions, and I got an error, which is actually the same error I was getting when trying to create a flow for a new Excel. After several failed attempts, I decided to repurpose the old flow, since it was working for years.

     

    InvalidTemplate

    Unable to process template language expressions in action 'Add_a_row_into_a_table' inputs at line '0' and column '0': 'The template language expression 'body('Get_response_details')?['r87618f66e0554741831a8f2e2e1fc2e6']' cannot be evaluated because property 'r87618f66e0554741831a8f2e2e1fc2e6' cannot be selected. Array elements can only be selected using an integer index. Please see https://aka.ms/logicexpressions for usage details.'.
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    6,517 Moderator on 04 Dec 2023 at 20:27:21
    Re: The flow runs successfully but some cells in excel are empty

    You will need to clear out all of the ms responses that are in the Add a Row field and replace them with your new form responses.

     

    When you add MS Form dynamic content to a field, it looks like the form question, but it is really using a long question Id in the background. 

    If you were to delete that question on the same form and add a new question with the same name, you would have to re-add the dynamic content to the field. This is because the long id doesn't match.

    If you made a new form, none of the those long Ids for each question will match.

    wskinnermctc_0-1701721492640.png

     

    See I have a form question name "Employee Name" but the dynamic content is really referencing the question "r92bf7112fbe74bdc9aad0cd0c9d8d740" id.

     

    Basically delete the dynamic content or even delete and re-add the actions and fill back in.

     

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