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Crosspost: Issue With Excel Query in PowerApps

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Hello everyone, I've been having this issue and I posted on the Excel forums, who then pointed me in the direction of this community. If this is more of a SharePoint issue please let me know and I'll look for support regarding that.

 

I have been developing a form-based app using PowerApps that collects data regarding appointment reschedules for the company I work for. I have it storing the data in a SharePoint List that I have connected to this Excel Spreadsheet where we then go and send the data out for the individual days. On my end everything works perfectly. I can use the PowerApp to input the data for the day and go to Excel and refresh to see the up-to-date changes just fine. However, this is not the case for my users. When downloading the Query file from Lists and opening it, everything works fine for the user the first time they open as long as they click the right buttons to enable the active content, but then when they try to refresh the data they get a random error. I am not able to reproduce this error on my end so I assume there's something going on with the permissions that are allowed for the users, but when clicking the "Technical Details" button on the error page there's a script error box. Anyone have any ideas on how to make this work? 

I ran some tests on some other user accounts and they are all having the same issue. I figure the script error is from Internet Explorer, but that's the only detail that this error gives me. The SharePoint website doesn't provide me any more details than what is present in the image.

 

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  • 365-Assist Profile Picture
    2,324 Moderator on at

    Does  the refresh work ok if they use Excel Online (Not desktop version)? Or do they get an error and what is the error?

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    When I try to use the query online it says that queries aren't supported in Excel Online. Should I try doing that another way?

  • 365-Assist Profile Picture
    2,324 Moderator on at

    If you are just using Excel for static reporting (e.g. Data Dumps) on an Ad-Hoc basis purposes then that's ok. However if you are looking for reporting to be updated\refreshed and available on a regular basis to a group of users  then building reports in Power BI is a better approach.

     

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  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    I will try to see if my sysadmin will allow me to use Power BI, currently it's restricted to me, I'll try to see if that will work better. Thank you for the suggestion!

     

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