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Reading an excel sheet as a table in power automate

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Posted on by MV-04100536-0 5
I have to read an excel sheet as a table with list rows present in table. If the name of the table inside the excel change, I am getting an error. How can i change it to dynamic name.
 
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    eetuRobo 4,565 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at
    You can use "Get tables" -action to get the table names dynamically.

    That will return array of the table names. So if you know you have just one table then use first() on that array to get the just one table. Syntax would be: first(outputs('Get_tables')?['body/value'])?['name']


    Thread about similar issue: https://community.powerplatform.com/forums/thread/details/?threadid=84dffb6f-de9f-46f7-bd7c-a015b64dab0c

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