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Flow Not working? (Flow, Forms, Excel table with formulas)

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Hello I am working on a Flow that was working correctly, but no longer seems to be, and I have not been able to get it to work again.   I have re-created it from scratch, with no success.  

 

The basic Idea of the flow is to have people submit an answer on a MS FORM.  That answer gets appended to a table in Excel online, where it is evaluated on that same table, by several columns with formulas.  About 2 minutes later, FLOW is supposed to look at the cells containing the formulas, and send emails based on the formula results.   4 situations, 4 emails. (Approved, 2 rejected emails, or 1 "Doesn't exist) email.

 

 

In the excel file I am working with One tab is a Table connected to MS Forms. contains about 20 rows.  5 come from MS Form, the other 15 are formulas (Vlookup, Concat, if), and they exist to evaluate the response submitted from the form.  The table containing the Lookup data is LARGE (About 3500 rows (and growing) and about 40 columns).

 

 

When I first built this flow, I was able to produce an email for each of the 4 scenarios I built below.  I also got several other users to test and have a similar results.  Then all of a sudden, it seems like the Table stopped automatically calculating/evaluating the submissions.  You will see this in 2 screen shots below where one of them has valid data, the other has #n/a.

 

Does anyone have any idea how to get this to work?

FlowFlowNot Calculating/Not WorkingNot Calculating/Not WorkingCalculating/WorkingCalculating/Working

Table/Formulas (partial)Table/Formulas (partial)

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    Re: Flow Not working? (Flow, Forms, Excel table with formulas)

    @edgonzales wrote:

    @Anonymous 

    Hi there!  It almost sounds as though the Flow is fine, but maybe Excel is causing the grief?

    Have you verified that the Auto-Calc is still on?  Check this article and let us know.

     

    -Ed-

     

    If this reply has answered your question or resolved your challenge, please consider marking it as a Solution. This helps other users find it more easily via search.



    I have confirm that "Auto Calc" is still on when I open the file on my desktop.  If i open the file in Excel online, the option doesn't exist.

     

    Its interesting because when I open the file online and in excel it clearly shows data calculated, but if I "Re-submit" the flow it continues to show results as if it cannot see that the data has calculated.

     

    Why would that happen?

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
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    Re: Flow Not working? (Flow, Forms, Excel table with formulas)

    Thanks for your response.  I have opened the file several times in Excel, and confirmed AutoCalc is On.  I am in the middle of my company month end close, but I would love to get any other ideas you have, and try them next week, when I have some free time to come back to this project.

     

     

  • Ed Gonzales Profile Picture
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    Re: Flow Not working? (Flow, Forms, Excel table with formulas)

    @Anonymous 

    Hi there!  It almost sounds as though the Flow is fine, but maybe Excel is causing the grief?

    Have you verified that the Auto-Calc is still on?  Check this article and let us know.

     

    -Ed-

     

    If this reply has answered your question or resolved your challenge, please consider marking it as a Solution. This helps other users find it more easily via search.

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