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Trigger instant flow from Excel

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Posted on by CU13081438-0 14

I'm wanting to know if I can trigger an INSTANT flow from excel, passing two variables (excel cell contents) as the Flow's inputs.

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    annetoal 1,934 Moderator on at

    The only Excel trigger I can see is For a selected row and yes, you can make this an Instant Flow.

    If you supply some more detail I hope I can help you better. Do you have any Flow code you can share?

     

    Anne

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    CU13081438-0 14 on at

     Hi Anne

     

    I don't have any code as yet as I haven't built the flow  - as I need the trigger to come from Excel.

    However, I'm trying to achieve the following:

     

    I have a spreadsheet that contains a table of email addresses.

    Essentially, I want to be able to click a button (like a Macro button I guess) that will action the following

     

    - Trigger an instant flow, that will have two inputs: ServiceID and Emails

    - Service ID will be the value of the cell A1

    - Emails will be the data from the emails table

    - The Service ID and Emails, now saved as variables, will be used to complete an HTTP PATCH function.

  • annetoal Profile Picture
    annetoal 1,934 Moderator on at

    I don't have experience extracting data from Excel sheets in Power Automate, but I found this post that might be able to get you started:
    Solved: Extract Excel Cell Value - Power Platform Community (microsoft.com)

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