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Retrieve lines from excel table and send them per mail

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Hey everyone

 

I am very new to power automate and not an IT expert.

 

I am trying to create a work flow retrieving an excerpt from an excel table once every week and send this table per mail.

 

The workflow should only filter entries in the table added within the last 7 days (Date of Receipt not older than 7 days), create a table containing all the headers except "number" and add this table to a mail.

 

The source excel table is deposited in a group looks abit like this:

 

NumberProductDate of receiptDue dateTask 
99990Apples2021-09-102021-09-17Make Pie
99991Cheese2021-09-172021-09-24Buy cracker
99992Coffee2021-09-222021-09-29survive
99993Balloons2021-10-022021-10-09party
99994bluebrix2021-10-222021-10-29build miniature 
99995Cats2021-11-032021-11-10make catvideos
99996Baboons2021-11-042021-11-21run away

 

Could you give me a walkthrough how to build the workflow step by step?

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  • abm abm Profile Picture
    32,985 Most Valuable Professional on at

    Hi @LEonie 

     

    To read the excel file in Power Automate you need to have a table associated with your Excel file. You could manually create this table or dynamically using Power Automate GRAPH API. I have written a blog about this.

     

    Please see this link.

     

    Power Automate – Excel – How to create Table and Read the Contents Dynamically? | @mydevexperience #Flownaut Super User III (@abm) (wordpress.com)

     

    Once you create the table you can read the contents via Power Automate. Please have a look at this video about how to filter Excel Date rows.

     

    Power Automate - How To Filter Excel Date Column Values? - YouTube

     

    In your case you need to filter the last 7 days. Use the expression below to get the date for the last 7 days.

     

    addDays(utcNow(),-7,'dd/MM/yyyy')

     

    Thanks

     

     

     

     

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    v-xiaochen-msft Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi @LEonie ,

     

    I assume that 'Date of receipt' column and 'Due date' column are date column in excel table.

    If 'Due date' - 'Date of receipt' <=7 days,   keep the item.

     

    I did a test for you.

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    div(sub(ticks(item()?['Due date']), ticks(item()?['Date of receipt'])), 864000000000)

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    vxiaochenmsft_6-1636095135379.png

    vxiaochenmsft_7-1636095155327.png

     

    Best Regards,

    Wearsky

     

     

     

     

     

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