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'Condition' to Check if 'Select' Action Output or Table or Excel File Contains a String

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Posted on by Samwise23

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I have the above flow:

The 'Follow-up' condition checks if the name of the attachment contains the word 'Follow'
Then the flow moves to create a file from the attachment
Then creates a table from the Excel sheet
Then lists the rows of the table
Then selects only few columns from the table
Then 'Filter Array check' action looks for certain strings using expression:

or(contains(item()?['Group'], 'Service-FRA'), contains(item()?['Group'], 'Service-NLD'))

Then the 'Condition NLD' checks if the body output of the 'Filter array check' is greater than zero before running further actions:

The problem with this method, it is breaking the entire flow, causing the first 'For each' action which comes before 'Get Attachment (V2)' to fail.
If i remove 'Condition NLD' from the flow and add some action directly, the flow works fine.

- Question: Is there any better way to create a condition that checks if a certain string exists either in the Output of the 'Select' or the output of the table or the file itself?

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Michael E. Gernaey 52,965 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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'Condition' to Check if 'Select' Action Output or Table or Excel File Contains a String

Hi

You say it fails, but you don't show any errors etc. Your walkthrough itself sounds great and I do not see anything wrong with your logic (as you spoke it), but I cannot see any errors, or the actions code etc etc

So can you please clarify what you mean by its breaks?

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Samwise23 58 on at

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'Condition' to Check if 'Select' Action Output or Table or Excel File Contains a String

@FLMike,

The issue is that I was trying to compare an array to a number that is why the flow was failing (without any specific error message). Instead, I should be comparing the length of the array like this:

where the expression is:

length(body('Filter_array_check'))

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