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Posted on by kts_dev 19

Have .txt file (not a CSV) that contains employee data where each line is an employee and each field is delimited by a special character. This file gets regularly uploaded/reuploaded to a SharePoint library. I want to read the content and add each row/field to a Dataverse table.

What's the best way to go about doing this? I know I can get this to work in Power Automate by parsing the file content, but is there a better/cleaner way to do this? Would virtual tables or Dataflows be better/possible?

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    AhmedSalih 6,680 Moderator on at

    Hello, @kts_dev , you use DataFlows for your use case:

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    Check out this tutorial for how to accomplish this: https://msolenacrm.blog/2021/01/04/dataflows-for-power-apps-transform-fixed-width-text-files/

     

     

     

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