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Flow for Excel vs. Flow

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I'm just learning about Flow now, ultimately would like to set up a flow that sends off an email based on certain triggers in a excel workbook. From what I've read, it looks like if I have an excel sheet on a Sharepoint site and use Flow for Excel, I have to set up a flow for each individual row in the worksheet, is that correct?

Whereas when I go to o365.com and try to set up a Flow, if I have the same workbook hosted on OneDrive for Business I'm able to use a flow that gets all rows from the workbook?

 

Just wondering if I'm understanding correctly so I can determine the best way to set this up. I've had issues with OneDrive for business properly syncing lately so was hoping I could use SharePoint, which strangely has been more reliable. 

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    Hi @mterry,

     

    Your understanding is almost correct.

    First, Flow has only Excel Online-For a selected row for Excel Trigger currently.

    When you select a specific row, then select the configured Flow, and then click Run, it will execute the pre-configured related actions.

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    In addition, if your excel file is stored in OneDrive for Business, you can get all the rows through Get rows action.

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    There are also some additional actions available, see the link below:

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/excel/

    The SharePoint connector is also a good choice, it provides a lot of very flexible actions, you can refer to the following links:

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/sharepointonline/

     

    Best Regards,

    Barry

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    84 on at

    Ok, thanks for letting me know and the links.

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