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URGENT: Bad Gateway from Excel

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Posted on by Charles-v-D 280

Hi All,

 

I have a flow that retrieves a row from Excel to determine an value based on an other value (like a lookup table)

Although the flow has been running for years, now I get an error "BadGateway"

 

When I go into edit mode I see strange behavior:

badgateway1.JPGbadgateway2.JPG

When I try to select the location it does not build the dropdown list as it would do usually.....

If I paste the location, it now finds the document library, it finds the file, but now it is not able to find the table inside the excel sheet....

 

Any advise?

 

Thanks in advance

Regards

Charles

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    Brad_Groux 4,556 on at

    You're likely experiencing Excel file lockout issues, which are 6-12 minutes in length. File lockouts are the main reason most Flow experts don't recommend Excel if at all possible. The Excel connectors have many Known issues and limitations. I'd recommend moving this workload to a SharePoint List if possible.

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