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Posted on by Theandster33 45

Hello I am currently trying to update a powerbi dashboard with an excel sheet of data. What I am doing is taking the last row that was added to the xcel sheet and applying it to the powerbi API dataset. However, it wont work since the "Compose" action is an object and not an array. 

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I tried using the "split" command to split the object into an array but it only works for strings.

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The big question, how do I turn an object into an array? I do not use powerbi desktop app btw, this is all in power automate and the powerbi.coms doing.

 

Thanks,

 

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    Nived_Nambiar 18,138 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi @Theandster33 

     

    First of all, this section is for asking questions over Power Automate Desktop flows. Make sure to post questions in correct section when posting your questions in future 🙂

     

    Coming to your question- to convert a object to array you can use array() function over compose action in apply to each so that it can act as one element loop. To get better clarity- see below flow design:-

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    Expression used there :  createArray(outputs('Compose_get_last_row'))

     

    This will create an array with the object as last row of table.

     

    Hope it helps !

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    Theandster33 45 on at

    Thanks you so much, that worked! Was not sure where to put this question as im pretty new to all of this. 

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