Flow is Grabbing Old Excel Documents in OneDrive Instead of Documents Currently in Folder

[sjd889]

Hello!

I'm having an issue with a flow that is designed to grab a couple of Excels stored in OneDrive/Teams, do a comparison, send out some emails and move the Excel documents out into an archival folder.

This is a weekly process, and needs to be run on Excel documents with new data weekly and those documents are manually placed in the same OneDrive/Teams folder a few hours before the process runs. The documents are named the same and are in the same format as the previous ones.

Here's the issue. It still picks up and runs the flow on the old documents even though they're in a completely different archival folder. How is this even possible? The only fix I've found so far is to go through the flow and reselect the exact same file pathway options that are already there. Obviously, having to do that defeats the purpose of automation.

I've tried dropping the files directly into OneDrive vs. in the Teams folder and syncing them there and that doesn't seem to make a difference. 

Please help!

[annajhaveri]

@sjd889  what action are you using to grab the file from onedrive, could you please share the screenshot of the flow?

[sjd889]

@annajhaveri  I'm using List rows present in a table.

[annajhaveri · Accepted solution]

@sjd889  try using dynamic values for file name and table name, so that flow doesnt cache the table values, see below on  how to do it. This will ensure that flow always gets the latest data from the file.

1. Add compose action and store your file name

2. Add Get Tables action, in file parameter, use the output of compose action

3. Add List rows present in table action, for file parameter select output of compose action, for table parameter use below expression, if your excel has just one table, if it has more than one table let me know then i can provide the logic accordingly.

first(outputs('Get_tables')?['body/value'])['id']