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Extract Excel Data

DEPRECATED: Use TableImport. Returns rows as activity output and hits Temporal's ~2 MB payload limit on non-trivial files.

Category: Structured Data Files (Excel, JSON, PDF) · Group: Files · Activity name: ExtractDataExcel

The ExtractDataExcel activity in the designer

Example

outputVariable = ExtractDataExcel("<filePath>", True, sheetName="<sheetName>", isCSV=False)

Inputs

NameTypeRequiredDefaultDescription
File PathstringYesThe path to the Excel file (.xlsx format) from which data will be extracted.
Sheet NamestringThe name of the sheet where the data should be extracted.
Include Hidden SheetsbooleanYesEnable this option to include hidden sheets in the processing. If disabled, hidden sheets will be excluded.
Is CSV FilebooleanFalseEnable this option if the file is a CSV file instead of an Excel file.

Outputs

NameTypeDescription
outputVariablearraySpecifies the name of the variable that will store the extracted data (a list of rows with corresponding column values).