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I want users of my power app to be able to import an excel file then my power app saves the data

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Posted on by SamuelLG 8

I am building a power app for users to request a service. The users will have an excel likely with two columns with tens of rows of data. I would like the app to be able to let them select a file from file explorer and save the file so I can access it later. If this means the app has to take the file and export the colums else where thats okay. I just don't want my users to have to copy and paste potentually hundreds of cells.

Thanks in advance.

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    Akser 1,546 Moderator on at

    Hi @SamuelLG,

     

    There is no simple answer for that but what you need is:

    1. Have an attachment control in your app
    2. Upload the attached Excel file using a flow
    3. In the same flow, you can read the content of the Excel file and respond it back to the app (e.g. JSON)
    4. Use the ParseJSON function and store the response in a collection
    5. Display the collection to the user with the use of a gallery to double check
    6. Upon confirmation, Use the Patch function to write the collection to your desired data source

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