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"Invalid/missing argument or invalid format" when trying to update an excel row with "=HYPERLINK("...";"...")" formula

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Hi everybody! I need help with the following issue. I built a flow that creates two dynamic variables ("Outputs" and "Date") and should update a row in an excel table creating an hyperlink to the URL (which is the variable "Outputs") hidden behind "Date". The flow is working perfectly fine on one excel file but the same exact flow does not work when used to update a second excel file (probably the two files have different properties, but I do not know where to start looking for this discrepancy).

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The flow works fine on one excel file updating the rows in the column I (as shown below):

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But the following error pops up when trying to apply the same flow to a second (almost identical) excel file:

{
  "status"400,
  "message""The argument is invalid or missing or has an incorrect format.\r\nclientRequestId: 3e3111e8-b80f-436d-9d77-845e18b13855\r\nserviceRequestId: 7fe97579-2781-46fa-aad2-7e2440d7c4bc",
  "error": {
    "message""The argument is invalid or missing or has an incorrect format."
  },
  "source""excelonline-cus.azconn-cus.p.azurewebsites.net"
}
I am temporarily circumventing the problem by removing the "=" from the formula "=HYPERLINK("Outputs";"Date") so that the string of text (no formula, therefore no hyperlink) is updated to the desired cell, and by manually adding the "=" in front of the formula to convert it into an hyperlink directly in the excel file but this is quite annoying. 
Any idea about how to fix the problem would be extremely appreciated.
Thanks 🙂

 

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    Microsoft Employee on at

    I am having the same problem now. I see this is an old post, but did you find any solution to the problem?

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    9 on at

    I needed to go back to the flow to see what i did to fix the issue. The only difference I see is a comma instead of the semi colon :S

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    Thank you, that actually worked! Which I find weird as when I enter the resulting expressions directly into Excel it only works using a semicolon.. 


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