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I have a flow to update or create items in SP List based on Excel Table. One of the columns in my table, Column H, contains dates (eg 28/Jan/2024). My flow runs successfully but no values from Column H are populated to my List. When I review the completed flow it shows on Inputs that Column H is "null". I've tried delete and recreating the column in my SP List and rebuilding flow from scratch. Neither attempt changed the "null" interpretation of Column H.

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Re: Excel Table Column with dates seen as "null"

Is your SharePoint column a Date column? If so, your Excel is likely text and you'll need to convert it to DateTime to write it to SharePoint. Or you can convert your SharePoint column to a text column.
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Re: Excel Table Column with dates seen as "null"

The SP List column is text. The Excel column is Custom format.

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Re: Excel Table Column with dates seen as "null"

Turns out my problem was in the column name in my Excel table which contained a "/". The JSON language used by Power Automate also uses "/" as a delimiter. So, when it pulled in column name it was adding and extra space for the "/" in the name and causing my Flow to fail. Once I replaced the "/" with an underscore in the column name the Flow worked perfectly.

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