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Hello,

 

I'm trying to use odata filter with "list of rows present in a table" Excel objects.

I tried a lot of possible formulation... none is working.

 

To give more detail, I have an excel file with DATE column name which could be null, I just want to get non null excel file lines.

I'll tried :

  • DATE ne null
    error: Invalid filter clause: unsupported operation. Only single 'eq', 'ne', 'contains', 'startswith' or 'endswith' is currently supported.
  • DATE ne ''
    error: Invalid filter clause: unsupported operation. Only single 'eq', 'ne', 'contains', 'startswith' or 'endswith' is currently supported.
  • length('DATE') gt 0
    result: 4 gt 0
    error: Invalid filter clause: unsupported operation. Only single 'eq', 'ne', 'contains', 'startswith' or 'endswith' is currently supported.
  • length('DATE') gt '0'
    result 4 eq '0'
    error: A binary operator with incompatible types was detected. Found operand types 'Edm.Int32' and 'Edm.String' for operator kind 'Equal'.
  • string(length('DATE')) gt '0'
    error: Invalid filter clause: unsupported operation. Only single 'eq', 'ne', 'contains', 'startswith' or 'endswith' is currently supported.
  • 'True' eq 'if(greater(length('DATE'), 0), false, true)'
    result: 'True' eq 'False'
    error: Invalid filter clause: unsupported operation. Only single 'eq', 'ne', 'contains', 'startswith' or 'endswith' is currently supported.
 
Do you have some clue for me ?
 
Adding an external Filter Array, is not a good solution for a question of performance like https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Connecting-To-Data/Flow-get-list-of-rows-form-excel-with-ODATA-filter/m-p/149876#M3393
 
 
thanks

 

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    v-bacao-msft Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

     

    Hi @nicolasd1 ,

     

    Unfortunately, we could not use Filter Query to filter records with the column which may be null currently.

    You are using the best option to filter these records, we could only use Filter array to do this operation as follows, leave the right parameter blank:

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    Besides, you could check this blog to get more usage about Filter Query, although some of the syntaxes here is not suitable for filtering records in Excel table, the rules are similar.

    https://sharepains.com/2018/11/12/sharepoint-get-items-odata-filter-query/

     

    Best Regards,

  • RRFreeman Profile Picture
    19 on at

    This is a MS bug.  Please fix.

    #bug

  • RRFreeman Profile Picture
    19 on at

    This is a MS bug.  Please fix the Excel OData filtering.

    #bug

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