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What's RowID in action 'Excel-Get row'?

I created a flow that's used to send emails to related people when a new line inserted to one Excel.

I cannot fined a trigger using Excel, so i used Power BI alerts as a trigger, then add an "Excel-Get row" action.

But it failed to run because of the Row ID, i saw here https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/General-Flow-Discussion/What-is-quot-Excel-Get-Row-quot-action-s-quot-Row-id-quot/td-p/5900 said there will be a new colomn in the table called "__PowerAppsId__" , i cannot see this in my table. Below's the failed message:

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Action 'Get row' failed
Fix It
To make this flow work, inspect the inputs to this action and ensure they would find the right resource.
Error type
This action failed because it tried to access something that does not exist.
Error Details
The error message from the service is below. This maybe useful for support:
No row was found with Id '2'. clientRequestId: 67a4a892-d9c3-42a7-b374-3ad555e1d31e

What i want to do is send emails to related people when a new line inserted to one Excel, and the email need to contain the new line info in excel, that's why i used Excel-Get row.

If the flow i created cannot work, how do i create this flow??

Thanks!

Hi DanicaY,

We do not have a trigger “when a new row inserted” for Excel currently, I have seen similar request at Flow Ideas Forum, I would suggest you vote and comment the idea at here. I will help collect and report this feature from my side.
https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Flow-Ideas/Excel-Online-New-Row-Trigger/idi-p/5474

As it is mentioned in another thread you provided, we can find the Row ID once we created a connection to an Excel table and update records to the table, a column "__PowerAppsId__" will be created automatically.

For your scenario, I would suggest you use the action “Excel – Get rows”.

A simple flow configuration for your reference. The flow is triggered by “Recurrence”, you could configure its Frequency and Interval manually to run the flow according to your needs.

For the Compose action, please use Workflow definition language “last” to get the latest item entered in the Excel table.

The function I am using here is:
“last(body('Get_rows')?['value'])”

More details about last function, please check the following URL:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/logic-apps/logic-apps-workflow-definition-language

Then the flow will run every minute to get the last item in the Excel table and send an email with the information of the last item.