Power Automate Create HTML Table - rows staggered against colums?

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I'm after some help -

I have an array that I am converting to a HTML table:

The issue is that the values are staggered across the rows -instead of ending up with one row I end up with three rows:

Appreciate any advice on where I might be going wrong.

Thanks

Simon

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ManishSolanki 15,091 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi Simon,

Pls share the output of array variable which is the input of "Create html table". The array should be like this:

[
{
"Program Name":"Prg1"
},
{
"Program Name":"Prg2"
},
{
"Program Name":"Prg3"
}
]

If this helps & solves your problem, please remember to give a 👍 and accept my solution as it will help others in the future.

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simon66 10 on at

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Hi Manish -
Array looks like:

[
{
"Program Name": "Galambany"
},
{
"Program Risk": "This event leads to that consequnce"
},
{
"Program Issue": "Example issue number one"
}
]

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Simon

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ManishSolanki 15,091 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi Simon,

Pls modify the flow to get the values in the array variable in the following format:

[
{
"Program Name":"Galambany",
"Program Risk":"This event leads to that consequnce",
"Program Issue":"Example issue number one"
}
]

When you pass this array to "Create HTML table" you will get a row with multiple columns.

If this helps & solves your problem, please remember to give a 👍 and accept my solution as it will help others in the future.

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simon66 10 on at

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Thanks Manish - this problem is that there will be multiple risks and issues for each program - so my flow is looping over risks (and adding to the array) then looping over issues and adding to the array for each issue - putting it in the one bracket as per you solution results in the program name being repeated... any thoughts on this scenario?
Simon

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ManishSolanki 15,091 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi @simon66

Could you pls share the screenshot(s) of the loops in edit mode? Let me have a look.

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simon66 10 on at

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Thanks Manish - appreciate your help with this...

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ManishSolanki 15,091 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi @simon66

Thanks for sharing the screenshots. I have prepared a sample flow for you that will help you in designing the required flow.

Here, I have set up one to many relationship (using lookup column) between Program Risk and Program Issue tables or entities.

1. Firstly, initialize an array variable 'ProgramIssues' that holds required objects:

2. Next, get the records from 'Program Risk' table using "List rows" action:

3. Now, iterate program risk records and using another "List rows" action get the issues for each risk. We will use filter rows parameter to filter out the required issues for a risk:

_crc76_programrisk_value eq '@{items('Apply_to_each')?['crc76_programriskid']}'

Pls use the logical name of the column in the above expression to compare with the unique identifier of parent row. The pattern should be like _<col logical name>_value:

4. Add another "Apply to each" action for iterating the issue records and collect all required fields in the array variable using "Append to variable" action:

5. Finally, pass the variable to "Create html table" action to get the desired table:

Output obtained after flow execution:

I hope this will give you some idea to modify your flow to get the desired output.

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Chriddle 8,443 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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You can solve that with without any loops by using xPath:

To make things easier for me, I skip the Get items and save the data in 2 Compose actions:

Risks:

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[ { "Name": "PN0", "Issue": "PR0" }, { "Name": "PN1", "Issue": "PR1" }, { "Name": "PN1", "Issue": "PR10" }, { "Name": "PN1", "Issue": "PR11" }, { "Name": "PN2", "Issue": "PR2" }, { "Name": "PN3", "Issue": "PI3" } ]
[ { "Name": "PN0", "Issue": "PR0" }, { "Name": "PN1", "Issue": "PR1" }, { "Name": "PN1", "Issue": "PR10" }, { "Name": "PN1", "Issue": "PR11" }, { "Name": "PN2", "Issue": "PR2" }, { "Name": "PN3", "Issue": "PI3" } ]

Issues:

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[ { "Name": "PN0", "Issue": "PI0" }, { "Name": "PN1", "Issue": "PI1" }, { "Name": "PN2", "Issue": "PI2" }, { "Name": "PN3", "Issue": "PI3" }, { "Name": "PN3", "Issue": "PI30" }, { "Name": "PN4", "Issue": "PI4" } ]
[ { "Name": "PN0", "Issue": "PI0" }, { "Name": "PN1", "Issue": "PI1" }, { "Name": "PN2", "Issue": "PI2" }, { "Name": "PN3", "Issue": "PI3" }, { "Name": "PN3", "Issue": "PI30" }, { "Name": "PN4", "Issue": "PI4" } ]

The Select action takes all names from Risks and Issues

union( xpath( xml(json(concat('{"root":{"name":',outputs('Risks'),'}}'))), '//Name/text()' ), xpath( xml(json(concat('{"root":{"name":',outputs('Issues'),'}}'))), '//Name/text()' ) )

and maps this as following:

Name:

item()

Risks:

join( xpath( xml(json(concat('{"root":{"name":',outputs('Risks'),'}}'))), concat('//name[Name="', item(), '"]/Issue/text()') ), decodeUriComponent('%0A') )

Issues:

join( xpath( xml(json(concat('{"root":{"name":',outputs('Issues'),'}}'))), concat('//name[Name="', item(), '"]/Issue/text()') ), decodeUriComponent('%0A') )

Since there are multiple risks and issues per name, they are joined with a line break.

The Create HTML table simply takes the body of the Select:

@{body('Select')}

The final table looks a bit awkward, but you can fix this with some styles (but this is another topic 😉)

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simon66 10 on at

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Thanks for the input - when I try to use:

{
item(),
union(
xpath(
xml(json(concat('{"root":{"name":',outputs('Risks'),'}}'))),
'//Name/text()'
),
xpath(
xml(json(concat('{"root":{"name":',outputs('Risk'),'}}'))),
'//Name/text()'
)
),
join(
xpath(
xml(json(concat('{"root":{"name":',outputs('Issues'),'}}'))),
concat('//name[Name="', item(), '"]/Issue/text()')
),
decodeUriComponent('%0A')
)
}

I am getting an invalid json error - appreciate any advice on where I might be going wrong with this approach.

Cheers,

Simon

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Chriddle 8,443 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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You must not use a single JSON. Each code block in my proposal is a seperated expression.

Pls check the screenshot where to place them.

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