web
You’re offline. This is a read only version of the page.
close
Skip to main content

Notifications

Announcements

Community site session details

Community site session details

Session Id :
Power Platform Community / Forums / Power Automate / Need help comparing st...
Power Automate
Unanswered

Need help comparing strings from external excel and input from form

(0) ShareShare
ReportReport
Posted on by 6

Hi all,

 

I have a Microsoft form set up where people are entering a network request form. that form is automatically being dumped to a sharepoint excel file, and periodically that excel is being mailed out to people.

 

One thing that came up was when we need to do revisions. The team has been instructed to ensure the event name of the request is consistent if they are doing a revision, and including all of the old information as well as the new info that's revised.

 

In an effort to keep the exported document clean, I'm trying to set it up so when a new response is submitted, its adding the row to the table I created, I then have it set up to list rows in present table, and set up an apply to each with condition.

 

dsj7419_0-1655327232197.png

dsj7419_1-1655327280018.png

 

The issue i'm having is i'm trying to compare the event name on the form, and the booking name from the new response submitted, and I dont think its working.

 

The idea is IF the two names match, AND the ID on the form does not equal the submitted ID (dont delete itself!), then it will delete the row.

 

Sadly, nothing happens. I did try to use trim() on both of those, and that ended up being ALWAYS true for every row, and deleted my entire spreadsheet.

 

Any suggestions to this? If you need more information please let me know!

 

Categories:
I have the same question (0)

Under review

Thank you for your reply! To ensure a great experience for everyone, your content is awaiting approval by our Community Managers. Please check back later.

Helpful resources

Quick Links

Forum hierarchy changes are complete!

In our never-ending quest to improve we are simplifying the forum hierarchy…

Ajay Kumar Gannamaneni – Community Spotlight

We are honored to recognize Ajay Kumar Gannamaneni as our Community Spotlight for December…

Leaderboard > Power Automate

#1
Michael E. Gernaey Profile Picture

Michael E. Gernaey 522 Super User 2025 Season 2

#2
Tomac Profile Picture

Tomac 364 Moderator

#3
abm abm Profile Picture

abm abm 243 Most Valuable Professional

Last 30 days Overall leaderboard