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Need an elegant way to create a Sharepoint List headers

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Hi folks,

I'm trying to move data from Excel to a new Sharepoint List with PowerAutomate.

To get there, I first need to create a new Sharepoint List with headers that match the Excel headers. Currently, my dummy dataset has five columns. I can manually type in the headers in Sharepoint List and select their datatype.

In the actual dataset, I have 50 columns in my Excel. Is there an elegant way to create Sharepoint List headers without typing in each column?

Thank you so much for your time! 

-K (newbie) 

 

Updates (10.25.23) - Complementary with the solution provided in this thread, I followed this Youtube video from @CFernandes for "HTTP Request to Sharepoint List".

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    Michael E. Gernaey Profile Picture
    53,325 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

    Hi @tinkerbellpixie 

     

    You can do. 

    1. You need to read the headers from Excel first, you get them like this.

    Add a Select action

    a) From Field 

    split(string(first(outputs('List_rows_present_in_a_table')?['body/value'])),'",')

    b) Map Field

    split(replace(replace(replace(item(), '"', ''), '}', ''), '{', ''), ':')[0]

    Originally Here:Solved: Re: Is there any way to get the column headers fro... - Power Platform Community (microsoft.com)

     

    This will give you an Array of headers, BUT it will have 2 additional things which you dont want

    [
     "@odata.etag",
     "ItemInternalId",
     "Heading 1 ",
     "Heading 2",
     "Heading 3"
    ]

    c) add a compose

    -

    skip(OutputArrayFromSelect, 2)
    
    This will create an array output, that has SKIPPED the first 2 items in your header list, so that they wont be used to create the SharePoint lists.

     

    2. You need to use the Send an HTTP request to SharePoint to create the list as there are no actions to do it directly.

     

    The only issue I am not sure how you plan to know the Column Types. This code gives you the headers, but not the Types etc.


    If I have helped you, I would really appreciate if you please Mark my answer as Resolved/Answered, and give it a thumbs up, so it can help others

    Cheers

    Thank You
    Michael Gernaey MCT | MCSE | MCP | Self-Contractor| Ex-Microsoft
    https://gernaeysoftware.com
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelgernaey

  • tinkerbellpixie Profile Picture
    13 on at

    @FLMike Thank you for sharing the original post and the additional comment on "Send HTTP request to Sharepoint". I was able to follow along until the last piece - "Send HTTP request to Sharepoint". 

    I did a test run and it ran without any errors. When I tried to look for the newly created Sharepoint List, I didn't see it on the Sharepoint site. Any ideas what went wrong here? 

    last step of the flow and outputlast step of the flow and output


     

     

     

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