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My Requirement is - To create a flow which will send email with Excel file as attachment to someone, once a order is created in power apps UI. That attachment XLSX file should have a table and its data.
Two ways I am following to make this -

1] Kept a Excel file with a empty table in OneDrive and and from the power apps, saving the data to that table and then calling a flow , which will pick that file and send an email with attachments of that file.
2] Created a flow (which accepts order data as input from power apps ) which will make Excel file on fly> then creating table dynamically > adding the data to that table > and sending email that file as attachments to destination

 

In both case above, getting the expected output but only in my login as I am flow owner. And for other user login both kind of flow are giving the error. "resource not found/item not found"

For 1# case-I am getting the flow error while I try to get the file content. Although the Excel file already is kept in the OneDrive.
And this error does not happen for myself as I am flow owner but for other user it happens.

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For#2, Getting the below error here I am making the Excel file on a fly to login user's OneDrive.

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I was trying in both ways, as it is an urgent requirement. So when the #1 did not help me I went for #2.
But none of my above ways is working. It works only for my login as I am flow owner.
Could somebody help me here, to fix this issue.
So that in other's login, no error should come.

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  • CU-18081211-6 Profile Picture
    9,270 Moderator on at

    @BPP_P ,

    That's because the other users don't have access to the same Excel file. The One Drive - Get File Content action search the file inside Onedrive of the action caller, so the action doesn't look for the file in your OneDrive. 

    You need to change the logic of the flow, and instead using OneDrive to host the Excel file use Sharepoint and be sure that each other users have access to the file. 

    Hope it helps !

  • BPP_P Profile Picture
    12 on at

    @gabibalaban 
    Thanks for your quick help.🙏
    Let me go ahead with SharePoint way.
    So for this SharePoint approach, do I need to add the end users under "Run only users" inside to flow? And is it required to share the SharePoint folder to the end user? As the flow program would add/edit file under the SharePoint folder.

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    9,270 Moderator on at

    No … you have to be sure that the users have the read/write rights in SharePoint folder / file.

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