How to cut content into differerent excel worksheet

[VollCorner_Biomarkt]

Hi all!

I’m trying to do something that sounds so simple but I’m running into one limitation after another:

I want to copy content from one excel sheet into another and delete it from the original sheet, the runs will be timed. Important: I cannot just delete the whole original table as there are functions running in that sheet, waiting for new content to be filled in.

First, I’ve run into the problem that it wouldn’t let me delete from the original file because that would “move cells in a table“, whether the worksheet contained a table or not.

Then, the deletion itself worked when I changed all modules to the “worksheet” instead of the “table” ones. But in this case, it just keeps deleting indefinitely or incompletely. Two solutions I’ve tried:

1. A high number of Delete modules (always deleting Row 2) following one another with a filter to specify the row isn’t empty. That way it also deletes indefinitely, as (from what I understand) it only knows Row 2 isn’t empty from the list rows module.
2. Map the Row ID from Module 1 into the Delete module. That way, it seems to delete exactly half of the rows but using as many Operations as it would actually need to delete all. My explanation: It deletes Row 1, which makes Row2 turn into Row 1. Then it deletes Row 2, so Row 1 is left standing.

ChatGPT is suggesting I make it delete from the bottom but I cannot make that work using the solution ChatGPT suggests, not sure it’s actually workable.

Grateful for any help!
Denise

[samliew]

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[VollCorner_Biomarkt]

Hi there, I’ve finally gotten around to it now:

A&M Archiv anlegen - List rows in a worksheet Iteration.blueprint.json (106.9 KB)

This is the latest scenario. I cannot show you any error messages, as the scenario runs through. The problem is that it does not reliably delete all rows with content in them, but just every second row.

The three modules are attached:

1. M365 Excel - List Worksheet Rows

   

   1a: a filter that specifies row D cannot be empty

   

2. M365 Excel - Add Worksheet Row (into another excel file, which is supposed to be an archive)

   

3. M365 Excel - Delete a Worksheet Row (in the original file from which step 1 listed the rows)

   

   Output bundles:

   bundle1.txt (35.3 KB)

   bundle2 operation1.txt (3.2 KB)

   bundle2 operation2.txt (3.4 KB)

   bundle.json (14 Bytes) (bundle3 operation1)
   bundle.json (14 Bytes) (bundle3 operation2)

In the run I made to create those bundles, it seems to have again successfully run module 1 and 2 (it copied the content of the two rows over into the “archive” excel sheet) but not reliably module 3 (it only deleted one of those rows in the original excel sheet).

Thank you!
Denise

[VollCorner_Biomarkt]

Hi again, maybe samliew you can help now with the new information provided?
Thank you
Denise

[samliew]

Sure, just aggregate the trigger module, then in another Iterator, use the built-in function reverse.

That’s how you delete from the bottom row first.

— @samliew

[VollCorner_Biomarkt]

Fantastic, thank you!