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Power Automate - Using Flows
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Turn form responses into individually named transposed excel files

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Posted on 21 Nov 2022 14:31:03 by 5

I am trying to create a flow that takes individual forms responses as shown and creates an individually named excel file containing a tranposed version of the responses

Candidate NumberFirst NameLast Name12345
12345JohnDoeABACD

 

into this format (an excel file called '12345_First Name_Last Name) for subsequent import into SQL DB

Candidate Number12345
First NameJohn
Last NameDoe
1A
2B
3A
4C
5D

 

Can anyone help/advise please?

  • AndrewMac Profile Picture
    5 on 25 Nov 2022 at 08:53:56
    Re: Turn form responses into individually named transposed excel files

    Hi Koen

     

    Thank you for your detailed response.  I don't have much experience of Forms or Power Automate to be honest but I think I grasp the concept.  Sadly I cannot change my form format, it has to be this way.  I do have admin rights and would happily listen to any suggestions you may have with a view to maybe altering the way I do this task.

    Thanks

    Andy

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    Unknown geen idee Profile Picture
    1,755 on 24 Nov 2022 at 08:11:21
    Re: Turn form responses into individually named transposed excel files

    Dear AndrewMac,

     

    I see 3 options to achieve what you want, but before that, I am wondering what you eventually want to do with the data. It seems to me that the structured data (table) you get from the form is perfectly suitable for any kind of analysis you need. Your solution may lie in changing the way you use the data.

    Anyways:

    1.  Change the original form to produce the output data as you want. This may be the easiest way, but this depends on if you have the rights to change the form output.
    2. Take the output from the form, get it as pure text and use various compose actions in which you change the text and syntax to match the 'transposed' structure you require ... after this you load the text as an array.
    3. Use Power Automate Desktop to use the transpose action from excel in excel.

    Hope the suggestions help you further along.

    Happy flowing,

    Koen

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