web
You’re offline. This is a read only version of the page.
close
Skip to main content

Announcements

News and Announcements icon
Community site session details

Community site session details

Session Id :
Power Platform Community / Forums / Power Automate / Check new entry via Fo...
Power Automate
Unanswered

Check new entry via Forms for duplicate value within an Excel table

(0) ShareShare
ReportReport
Posted on by 12

Hi, so I have Form that takes user input (some text entry, some dropdowns, some choices), as values to be appended to an excel sheet (called 'Mapping'). The flow then checks if a text entry exists within a separate excel sheet of valid ID's. If yes, an approval process is started which decides if the users submission is appended to the table in 'Mapping'. 

 

I would like to insert a step before the approval process which checks if the users entry already exists, and if so cancels the flow. For an example:

 

The user submits the following (Blue, John Mayer, 7777, 9876, NY) The query finds that this exact combination of values already exists within 'Mapping', so the flow is cancelled.

 

But if the user submits (Blue, John Mayer, 7777, 1234, NY) then it goes ahead to the approval process, as the 4th value (9876 vs 1234) is different. 

 

Any ideas? I used the Get a Row feature to validate my ID's, but cannot figure out how a way to do the same for multiple columns. 

 

Thanks!

Categories:
I have the same question (0)
  • annajhaveri Profile Picture
    8,531 Most Valuable Professional on at

    @OMcP  you can use "List rows present in a table" action with one Filter Query based on one of your columns. Then you can use Filter Array action to further filter on other columns, the output of Filter Array will give you data whether the row with all matching data is returned or not

  • CU10081315-1 Profile Picture
    on at

    I'm having this same issue - any way you could do a screenshot of what the filter query would look like? I'm not sure I'm doing it right.

Under review

Thank you for your reply! To ensure a great experience for everyone, your content is awaiting approval by our Community Managers. Please check back later.

Helpful resources

Quick Links

Introducing the 2026 Season 1 community Super Users

Congratulations to our 2026 Super Users!

Kudos to our 2025 Community Spotlight Honorees

Congratulations to our 2025 community superstars!

Leaderboard > Power Automate

#1
David_MA Profile Picture

David_MA 103 Super User 2026 Season 1

#2
Haque Profile Picture

Haque 87

#3
trice602 Profile Picture

trice602 63 Super User 2026 Season 1

Last 30 days Overall leaderboard