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Formula in Excel fetched as #VALUE!

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Posted on by ezequiel

Hi

 

I'm retrieving info from Excel but event the field has a value, Flow fetches the info as  "hours_last_week": "#VALUE!"

 

The field is populated in Excel with a formula and it has the value 31

 

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Is this some kind of glitch? Any workaround to get the actual value of the cell and not "#VALUE!"?

 

Thanks

 

Ezequiel

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  • bibhupanigrahi Profile Picture
    bibhupanigrahi 240 on at
    Re: Formula in Excel fetched as #VALUE!

    Hi @ezequiel , this is a limitation of the Excel connector and not a glitch. You can use some workarounds to get what you want. One way would be to bring the calculation part to the flow instead of doing it in Excel. For this you should be able to pull the source fields that the calculated column was based on. Hope this helps!  

  • ezequiel Profile Picture
    ezequiel on at
    Re: Formula in Excel fetched as #VALUE!

    Thanks @bibhupanigrahi ...can you give me an example on how to do that? Thanks again

  • bibhupanigrahi Profile Picture
    bibhupanigrahi 240 on at
    Re: Formula in Excel fetched as #VALUE!

    Hi @ezequiel , let's assume I have an Excel table where 'hours_last_week' is a calculated column based on the formula "=[@[Number of Events]]*[@[Average Duration (Hours)]]". This column uses two other columns as the source data, which are also pulled by the flow. So I can get the 'hours_last_week' value for each row in the flow using the formula "mul(float(items('Apply_to_each')?['Number of Events']), float(items('Apply_to_each')?['Average Duration (Hours)']))". I just tested this and it works fine:

     

    excel-calculated-column-workaround.jpgexcel-calculated-column-workaround-output.jpgexcel-calculated-column-workaround-sourcefile.jpg

     

     

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