Contribute New Sample Flow demonstrating processing an excel file from email, grouping work items and email employees their workitems

[MichaelGernaey]

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• Bug fix? (no)
• New sample? (Yes)
• Related issues: fixes #X, partially #Y, mentioned in #Z (No)
• Needs API permissions? (SharePoint, Excel Online Business and Outlook 365 connectors)
• Has other prerequisites? (Documented in the README.md, SharePoint, Outlook, Excel Business aka M/O365 account)

What's in this Pull Request?

The is a brand-new sample, that leverages Excel, SharePoint and Outlook 365. It illustrates how to send an excel file that has a list of workitems in an excel table with headers. The flow will trigger, validate the incoming excel attachment and then process the file by first saving it to a SharePoint document library, then list all the rows in Excel. It will then use a unique list of email addresses, composed from the excel data, to group all workitems by unique email address and then email the employee their workitems in an HTML Table

• A Flow Example
• An Excel file called workitems.xlsx which is used by the flow
• A word document in the assests which provides direct details of every action, it is essentially a business process functional and technical specification document
• images for the README.md
• instructions on what to do

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[Katerina-Chernevskaya]

Hi @MichaelGernaey ,

Thank you for your submission!

To proceed with merging the sample I want to kindly ask you to switch from hardcoded data sources values to Environment Variables. It will ensure a smooth process for using the sample. Reference lick: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/maker/data-platform/environmentvariables-power-automate. You can add as Prerequisites what should be configured in advance - like SharePoint list with what columns, etc.

Additionally, please create a new branch in your repo and make a PR from your branch, not from the main. The full contribution guide: https://github.com/pnp/powerplatform-samples/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md

Thank you!

Regards,
Katerina Ch.

[MichaelGernaey]

HI @Katerina-Chernevskaya Certainly I can do that right now

[MichaelGernaey]

HI @Katerina-Chernevskaya so sorry on the extremely long delay. A load of personal issues and surgeries and am still recouping and the wife. I hope its ok if I make these changes now.

Sorry about the main, I didn't read anything in there that I had to have a different branch than the repo Main I created only for my contributions to this repo (in the contributions guide) I will resolve that as well :-)

Thank you so much for your understanding :-)