Excel (Business) - List rows present in a table: 256 row limit, any way around it?

[ChadVKealey]

I know with some of the other Excel "get rows" or "get tables" actions, there is a "Maximum Get Count" property that can be increased to 2048. However, the "List rows present in a table (Preview)" action does not have that property. There is a "Top Count" property, which I've set to 2048 (see below), but the Flow I'm using is still only getting 256 rows from the file. In this file, there are typically going to be 1,000 or fewer rows, so this would be an ideal solution if I could get around the 256-row limit. Any help would be appreciated.

[v-yuazh-msft]

Hi @  ChadVKealey,

The action "List rows present in a table" of Excel (Business) connector have the 256 rows limit in microsoft flow currently.

If you would like the limit of action "List rows present in a table" of Excel (Business) connector would be 2048 rows,

I afraid that there is no way to achieve your needs in Microsoft Flow currently.

If you would like this feature to be added in Microsoft Flow, please submit an idea to Flow Ideas Forum:

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Flow-Ideas/idb-p/FlowIdeas

Regards,
Alice Zhang

[rrranta]

What happened to the "Get Rows" option? It worked really well, now I don't see it anymore. We only see "List rows present in a table"

Thanks

[RobinV86]

I am having the exact same issue. This is really frustrating! Any way around this? 

[Franck_Garcia]

Same issue and still no fix from Microsoft 

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[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

You can get more rows returned by setting a higher value for the pagination settings.

1. Go to "List rows present in table" action
2. Select the options elipses ("...")
3. Select 'Settings'
4. Enable Pagination
5. Set an appropriate row limit

[Franck_Garcia]

Hi BSouthby,

I have tested it with 400 rows. It worked.

Thank you !

[Anonymous]

@Franck_Garcia, you're welcome!

[JACK_LAI]

@Anonymous 

Thank you for your direction , after I modify this config , it can get my excel data more than 256 rows !!!!

[Anonymous]

Great news @JACK_LAI !  Good luck with your Flows!!

[DenisSkorskiy1]

Pigination works!

[timothyliangbmo]

The pagination setting works. I tested it with 500. However, the problem is the run-time increases quite significantly if I go above 1000. 

[Kav]

Any idea what the upper limit of pagination setting is?

[KrishnaV]

Hi,

I have tested pagination with 3500 and it worked seamlessly, but performance is significantly bad, I hope that helps you.

Thank you,

Krishna

[Kav]

Very cool, thank you!

[KrishnaV]

Just to be more precise it took 52 min for populating 5470 records from excel to Sharepoint after I change the pagination from 256 to 3500 🙂

Regards,

Krishna

[RachelRig]

Is there a way Microsoft can make limits like this more easily KNOWN? These things are not obvious. The Flow runs happily through 256 items and there's no warning -- nothing. We only found out after a significant business impact was detected.

[KrishnaV]

Hi @RachelRig,

Follow this article you will come to know more insight on Flow and its limitations:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/limits-and-config