Access File of Manual Flow Trigger with Excel Connector

[FlavioSWK]

How can I access a File of a manual Flow Trigger with an Excel Connector?

I want to access the xlsx file that was put in for "Adress List" with the Excel Connector, like shown in the image:

The Excel Connector requires several parameters and I don't know what to put in there if I don't want to refer to a sharepoint site.

Is there any way I can get this to work for the "Adress List" file?

[schwibach]

Where did you store the file?

In a Team, in your OneDrive?

For starters it's easiest to put the file in your personal OneDrive.

In location and document library you then select OneDrive.

In File, you browse for the file that you stored.

Once you have done that, you get to select the existing tables in the file. (The data must be stored as a table.... if you have the data stored in a range, select all the data and hit Ctrl+T in Excel. Then you get a table)  

[FlavioSWK]

I do not have a specific location where I store the file. That's why I use the manual file input in the flow trigger, like in the image:

The excel file always has the same structure but I get a new version every now and then via E-Mail. That's why I want to import it manually using the import button in the trigger.

[schwibach]

In order to use the Excel connector, the file needs to be stored (temporarily) in OneDrive or SharePoint. Just create a temp folder and a file name with a guid() as file name (to handle multiple parallel flows) and then delete the file afterwards in the flow.

Then you can use the connector.

[FlavioSWK]

Could you please share an example using the guid() function?

I tried creating the temporary file but I always get an Error 400 with message "This file is locked for shared use".

[schwibach]

Maybe, you could try with a delay, so the file is not locked anymore.

Excel is not the preferred datasource when working with Power Automate. So, it has some additional gremlins.

Are you sure you need to use excel and cannot provide the data in a different form?

[FlavioSWK]

I just tried it using a delay of 1 minute but it does not seem to work.

Is there any other Connector I could try instead of "Create File" for Sharepoint?

Unfortunalety yes, I have to work with the Excel file.

[schwibach]

Try the onedrive for business connector with the create file action... Just to try.

[FlavioSWK]

I just tried. Unfortunalety I get the same error message:

"The resource you are attempting to access is locked"