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Posted on by mterry

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.

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

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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Ok, thanks for letting me know and the links.

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