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How can I extract data from cells in an Excel spreadsheet attached to a list item?

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I'm new to working with PowerApps, though I'm a long-time SharePoint developer.  I have a situation where list items have an attached Excel spreadsheet.  I need to add a custom button to the list item view form that when clicked does the following:

  1. Find the Excel spreadsheet attached to the list item.
  2. Extract data from various cells in the spreadsheet (a dozen or so).
  3. Call an external RESTful API passing-in the extracted data as JSON.

Is this possible?  I can't change the format of the spreadsheet as there are too many to update.

 

Thanks for your help.

 

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    mdevaney 29,991 Moderator on at

    @Anonymous 

    This MIGHT be possible using Microsoft Automate to start a Flow on a click of the button but it definitely can't all be done in native PowerApps.  I would suggest you post this question in the Flow community as well because that's where the difficult problem-solving will occur.


    Link to Power Automate Community
    https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Get-Help-with-Power-Automate/ct-p/FL_GeneralDiscussions

     

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