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Posted on by wshalex123 160

Hey,

 

i can't eyplain myself the following error:

What my flow does in short:

  1. refresh excel online file
  2. wait 1 minute 
  3. list rows in excel online table
    • Checks if it's the birthday or jubilee of an employee
  4. Message the whole company via teams that the given employee has birthday/jubilee

wshalex123_0-1667208345203.png

 

 

 

Now the interesting part:

The flow is being triggered every day at 7:30

  • successfull, with now error 

wshalex123_1-1667208457177.png

--> But the flow does not finish and send any teams message.

 

wshalex123_2-1667208655516.png

 

BUT:

When i "test the flow" afterwards, it works just fine.

 

Can anyone tell me whats wrong here?

 

Thanks 🙂 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  • schwibach Profile Picture
    schwibach 2 Moderator on at

    So, just so I get it right:

    At 7:30 in the morning, the flow does not send any messages?

    But when you trigger it manually, it works fine and sends messages ?

     

    By the way, I don't see where it checks the the birthday.

  • wshalex123 Profile Picture
    wshalex123 160 on at

    Hi  @schwibach,

     

    exactly! In the Excel file, it checks in one column if theres a Birthday (Name =CheckBDY). If this is the case, the formula says "1". If theres no birthday it's "0". 

    In the query filter in Power Automate it Checks if there is any "1" in the CheckBDY column:

    wshalex123_0-1667393953221.png

     

    The example of todays flow at 7:30 is pretty interesting. The Output of list rows in excel action found a "1" in CheckBDY, even though there is none. So it posted The Birthday even though there isn't any.

    wshalex123_1-1667394070988.png Output

    wshalex123_2-1667394102033.png Excel

     

    Technically, the automatic flow at 7:30 gives me the Birthday at the last day. The Birthday above was yesterday!

    Is it possible it saves the Info in a cache somewhere? I can't explain this error its super strange

     

     

     

  • schwibach Profile Picture
    schwibach 2 Moderator on at

    Sounds like a time zone issue.

    I recommend not doing the comparison on power automate, not excel. If you don't open the file, it won't update

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