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Using date from Power BI export in dynamic file name

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Posted on by turp111

Hello all,

 

I have a feeling I'm missing something pretty simple here but I've been looking for hours and finally concede that I need some help!  A pic of my simple flow is below.  I'm exporting from a Power BI button I built, and ultimately creating a CSV file in a SharePoint directory.  I would like to use the date in the export as the file name.  This date tells me (and the eventual users) when our commissions flow was run and having it also as the file name will be very helpful.  Right now I just have the filename date as the day the report is run.  FYI - I'm using the 'SELECT' connector so I have format the date to a simple MM-dd-yyyy.

 

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  • lbendlin Profile Picture
    lbendlin 8,041 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at
    Re: Using date from Power BI export in dynamic file name

    use first()

     

    Get the first item or first file from an array in Power Automate (encodian.com)

  • turp111 Profile Picture
    turp111 on at
    Re: Using date from Power BI export in dynamic file name

    Thanks for the response.  Yes, I know that's what I need to do - my question is how.

  • lbendlin Profile Picture
    lbendlin 8,041 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at
    Re: Using date from Power BI export in dynamic file name

    Your Power BI Button sends an entire table to your flow. You will need to specify that you want to use the date value from the first row of that table.

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