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Need flow to populate data from one table in Excel to another table using table headers to determine where to populate the data

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Posted on by Microsoft Employee

I am trying to archive data from a table in one SharePoint spreadsheet to a different table in another Excel file for archiving purposes. The trouble is that the two tables are not identical and the labels vary across them (think: "Task Description" vs "Task Details") so I can't just get rows and then add them to the archive. 

 

I need to be able to tell Power Automate to populate values from table header "Task Description" to "Task Details" in the new table.

 

Is there a way to accomplish this? This would be a manually triggered flow.

 

I think the general flow structure would look like this:

 

Get rows table 1 > "Task Description Value" populates to "Task Details" in table 2 > Create Row

 

 

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  • ScottShearer Profile Picture
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    @jlsaville 

    Actually, what you want to do is very easy.

    You'll use a button trigger to start the Flow and then a SharePoint get items action.  Loop through all of the rows and add rows to the Excel table inside of the loop (add a row to a table action).  You simply select the SharePoint column that should be placed in each column of the table.

    Let me know if you need a better example.

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  • jlsaville Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    I'm not sure this will work because both documents are Excel spreadsheets that are stored on SharePoint. They're not SharePoint lists. Am I missing something?

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