使用Microsoft Flow按顺序将SharePoint列表中的行插入Excel

Question

I need to create an excel document daily that captures any changes to a SharePoint list.

The list on SharePoint contains the columns 'vendor' / 'product' / 'promotion' and is sorted by vendor first, and product second.

Using the 'Get Items' SharePoint connector to feed 'Insert Rows' Excel connector is yielding the correct result, except that it is not putting the items in the order they are displayed on the SP list (sorted by vendor, then product). It is adding them to excel in the order they were added to the sharepoint list (IE The last addition to the sharepoint list is last on the excel table).

I am using insert row instead of create table or create worksheet because the formating of the cells must be maintained. By leaving the first cell in my template intact and deleting all of the old entries before getting the updated ones, the formatting is preserved.

There are actions updstream and downstream within my flow that I would like to preserve, so using an alternative solution to Flow is not ideal.

Is there a way to bring the sharepoint row items in order?

Answer 1

There was two factors mitigating the results of my flow:

1) There seems to be some bug that if you do not "Filter By" the items, applying an "Order By" paramater wraps the action in an apply to each, which is unworkable.

2) Looking at the server responses from the Flow report, I noticed that the Display names of some of the columns in my SharepPoint List were not the same as my column header. In my case, I renamed "Title" to "Partner", but it was still being identified as "Title", despite not displaying this in Sharepoint.

Overall solution was to 1) put a dummy filter in that grabbed everything in the Get Items action: "Title ne 'x'" (remove " marks when using in Filter By, means Title not equal 'x'), and 2)Using "Title asc" in Order By.