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HI, I have an array in the below format and want to the get it in a table format. Using Power automate to send email as a tabular structure.

Input format:

[
{
"Name": "User1",
"Category": "General",
"Hours": "32.0000000000000"
},
{
"Name": "User2",
"Category": "General",
"Hours": "8.00000000000000"
},
{
"Name": "User3",
"Category": "Stage 7 - Develop Project Tools & Templates",
"Hours": "3.00000000000000"
},
{
"Name": "User4",
"Category": "Stage 7 - Develop Project Tools & Templates",
"Hours": "3.00000000000000"
},
{
"Name": "User1",
"Category": "Stage 7 - Develop Project Tools & Templates",
"Hours": "4.00000000000000"
},
{
"Name": "User2",
"Category": "General",
"Hours": "5.00000000000000"
},
{
"Name": "User3",
"Category": "General",
"Hours": "5.00000000000000"
},
{
"Name": "User4",
"Category": "Stage 2 - Develop Draft Frameworks",
"Hours": "7.00000000000000"
}
]

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OutPut format:

UserName	Category	TotalHours
User1	General	3.5
User1	Stage 2 - Develop Draft Frameworks	8
User1	Stage 3 - Change Management Plan	14.5
User1	Stage 4 - Project Assurance Framework	5.5
User1	Stage 6 -Project Process Mapping	10
User1	Stage 7 - Develop Project Tools & Templates	8.5
Total Hours	50
User2	General	2.5
User2	Stage 4 - Project Assurance Framework	2
User2	Stage 5 - Data Mapping - Define reporting criteria	6.5
Total Hours	11
User3	Stage 2 - Develop Draft Frameworks	38
User3	Stage 6 - Project Process Mapping	35
Total Hours	73
User4	General	1
User4	Stage 7 - Develop Project Tools & Templates	15
Total Hours	16

Need help in achieveing that output, Community please help

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Chriddle 8,632 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Use action "Create HTML table"

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Hi Chriddle,
I have used HTML action however it is giving a table but inserting a row for each item in List. I want to consilidate for each user based on the category and count number of hours.

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So your problem is not about creating a table, but restructuring/combining the object array.
Let's summarize:
You want to add all hours per user and category (I don't get why e.g. User2 | General adds up to 2.5, in general your input and the output table don't match), sort this by user and sum the total hours per user.
Is this correct?

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Hi Chriddle,
yeah that's true sort by the user, Get categroy and then hours associated to that category.

In Tabular form

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Took some effort

Input of Apply to each User:

sort(
	union(
		xpath(
			xml(json(concat('{"root":{"User":', outputs('Users'),'}}'))),
			'//Name/text()'
		),
		json('[]')
	)
)

ProjectsByUser: Filter action

From: @outputs('Users')

Filter:

@equals(item()['Name'], items('Apply_to_each_User'))

ProjectsCombined: Select action

From:

sort(
	union(
		xpath(
			xml(json(concat('{"root":{"ProjectName":', outputs('ProjectsByUser'),'}}'))),
			'//Category/text()'
		),
		json('[]')
	)
)

Map:

{

"Name": @{items('Apply_to_each_User')},

"Category": @{item()},

"Hours": seebelow

}

xpath(
	xml(json(concat('{"root":{"User":', outputs('Users'),'}}'))),
	concat('sum(//User[Name/text()="',items('Apply_to_each_User'),'" and Category/text()="', item(),'"]/Hours/text())')
)

Input of Apply to each Project: @{body('ProjectsCombined')}

Append to array variable

Name: resultObject

Value: @item()

Append to array variable 2

Name: resultObject

Value:

{"Name": "Total Hours", "Category": "", "Hours": @{xpath(
	xml(json(concat('{"root":{"User":', outputs('Users'),'}}'))),
	concat('sum(//User[Name/text()="',items('Apply_to_each_User'),'"]/Hours/text())')
)}}

Create HTML table Output:

Name Category Hours

User1	General	32
User1	Stage 7 - Develop Project Tools & Templates	4
Total Hours		36
User2	General	13
Total Hours		13
User3	General	5
User3	Stage 7 - Develop Project Tools & Templates	3
Total Hours		8
User4	Stage 2 - Develop Draft Frameworks	7
User4	Stage 7 - Develop Project Tools & Templates	3
Total Hours		10

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Thanks for your input, I'll try to replicate the same at my end and let you know if I need any further assistance

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