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Posted on by robevans Microsoft Employee

I've been trying to filter out a column Ticket ID from excel and so far have had no luck with the syntext. I've tried several different methods and none seem to be working.

Ticket ID
Ticket_ID
'Ticket ID'
'Ticket_ID'

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RezaDorrani 12,145 on at

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Hi @robevans

I am not sure if the filter query can handle spaces
Your best bet will be to remove the space from the column name

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Reza Dorrani

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ScottShearer 25,280 Most Valuable Professional on at

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@robevans

SharePoint OData filters in Flow usually use a columns internal name. The easiest way to find out how to refer to a column in your filter is to create a Flow and add a Get Items action (and no filter). Scroll through the output after you run the Flow - you'll need to refer to your column in the same manner as it appears in the output. Spaces are usually replaced wit x00200_ but you'll need to check to be sure. I have noticed that SharePoint online now ususally simply removes the space for the internal name now (didn't in the past).

In my example, the Column name is Ticket ID but I need to refer to the column as TicketID.

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Hi @robevans,

Currently, the Excel connector does not support to put the column name with space as a filter condition.
But you can use the Filter array action to get the value of Excel, for example:
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Community Support Team _ Lin Tu
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sshinn 4 on at

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I love this solution!
I never would have guessed that 'Ticket #' encodes to Ticket_x0023_ without your solution, thank you!

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I'm running into this issue... my excel file has many columns with names with spaces in them. Are there internal column names for Excel column names?

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SortThisSh_tOut 8 on at

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Not working anymore! I've tried to check internal name of the field with space using Get Rows. The source was an Excel table. This what I've got:
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"Calculated SD": "44107",
"Calculated ED": "44134",
...

I'm done with ODATA filtering. It is so unusable. I've tried it several times and each of theme it was a nightmare.
If you can stay away from using ODATA filtering as long as you have other options!

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lvbosch 2 on at

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This is how you can remove spaces from an Excel spreadsheet: do a "Create table" and set Column names.

By the way, you can set a range for the table with the column range (A:N). No need to put specific row ranges.

Hope it helps!

Leandro.

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