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Problem when specifying Excel file in Execute Office Scripts action

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Hello everyone, I'm trying to run a flow with Office Scripts on Excel file red from Sharepoint document library.

Office Script works perfectly when I manually execute it on static Excel file.

However, when I set a dynamic file value from sharepoint library, I get 404 error such:

"The script could not be executed. Please try again. The script was unable to create a connection with Excel. Please try again"

(error message translated from italian...).

Flow extract follows:

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I've tried Name, DisplayName, Id and more, but nothing seems to work.

Thank you for any help!

 

PS. my flow works with no errors when I remove "Execute script" action... 😏

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  • Yutao Huang Profile Picture
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    Hi @Gilgamesh ,

     

    "Id" seems to be working for me.

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    If it still doesn't work for you, could you please share (or PM me) the "x-ms-client-request-id" from the error output?

     

    Thanks!

    Yutao

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    44 on at

    Thanks for answer @Yutao , I get the result adding an action between "Create file" on Sharepoint and "Run script": choosing "Get file properties" I used the item "Identifier". It worked for me!

     
     
     
     
     

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