Office Script, update table from another, worked now failing - office-scripts

Question

I used what I found Here and it worked great for a few months. My Workbook would always have the latest table update. Starting today it fails every time. Referencing Script 2 during the Flow-
Worksheet getRange: The request failed with status code of 504, error code UnknownError"
//resizes the range
let rang: ExcelScript.Range = SelectedSheet.getRange("A2").getResizedRange(valuesRowCount, valuesColumnCount)
Script 1 =
function main(workbook: ExcelScript.Workbook)
{
let selectedSheet = workbook.getActiveWorksheet();
let usedRange = selectedSheet.getUsedRange();
// Delete range B:D
selectedSheet.getRange("B:D").delete(ExcelScript.DeleteShiftDirection.left);
// Delete range G:I
selectedSheet.getRange("G:I").delete(ExcelScript.DeleteShiftDirection.left);
// Delete range L:L
selectedSheet.getRange("L:L").delete(ExcelScript.DeleteShiftDirection.left);
// Delete range M:M
selectedSheet.getRange("M:M").delete(ExcelScript.DeleteShiftDirection.left);
// Delete range N:S
selectedSheet.getRange("N:S").delete(ExcelScript.DeleteShiftDirection.left);
// Delete range P:X
selectedSheet.getRange("P:X").delete(ExcelScript.DeleteShiftDirection.left);
// Delete range R:AW
selectedSheet.getRange("R:AW").delete(ExcelScript.DeleteShiftDirection.left);
let newTable = selectedSheet.addTable(usedRange, true);
//get table
let tbl: ExcelScript.Table = selectedSheet.getTable("Table1");
//get table's column count
let tblColumnCount: number = tbl.getColumns().length;
//set number of columns to keep
let columnsToKeep: number = 22;
//set the number of rows to remove
let rowsToRemove: number = 0;
//resize the table range
let tblRange: ExcelScript.Range =
tbl.getRangeBetweenHeaderAndTotal().getResizedRange(rowsToRemove,
columnsToKeep - tblColumnCount);
//get the table values
let tblRangeValues: string[][] = tblRange.getValues() as string[][];
//create a JSON string
let result: string = JSON.stringify(tblRangeValues);
//return JSON string
return result;
Script 2 =
function main(workbook: ExcelScript.Workbook, tableValues: string) {
let selectedSheet = workbook.getActiveWorksheet();
let SelectedSheet: ExcelScript.Worksheet = workbook.getWorksheet("Database")
let usedRange = selectedSheet.getUsedRange();
//parses the JSON string to create array
let tableValuesArray: string[][] = JSON.parse(tableValues);
//gets row count from the array
let valuesRowCount: number = tableValuesArray.length - 1
//gets column count from the array
let valuesColumnCount: number = tableValuesArray[0].length - 1
//resizes the range
let rang: ExcelScript.Range = SelectedSheet.getRange("A2").getResizedRange(valuesRowCount, valuesColumnCount)
//sets the value of the resized range to the array
rang.setValues(tableValuesArray)
// Fit the width of all the columns in the Table.
SelectedSheet.getUsedRange().getFormat().autofitColumns();
selectedSheet.getUsedRange().getFormat().setHorizontalAlignment(ExcelScript.HorizontalAlignment.left);
}
Any idea what I am doing wrong?

Answer 1

Are you running Script 1 as part of a Flow too? If so, you should change this line in Script 1:
let selectedSheet = workbook.getActiveWorksheet();
When you run a script as part of a Flow, you need to specify the worksheet by ID or name. So, for example, you would change the line to something like:
let selectedSheet = workbook.getWorksheet("Sheet1")
where Sheet1 is the sheet you want to add the table to.
You have two different sheet variables in Script 2 as well. One is 'selectedSheet' and the other is "SelectedSheet'. You reference both later in the script. Do you mean to have both? And again, for scripts running as part of a Flow, always specify the sheet by ID or name that you are trying to reference. Let me know if that fixes things!

Answer 2

Have you tried rerunning your flow? It's possible there could have been some temporary issue with PowerAutomate. So perhaps the service was down.
The only potential issue I see is this
let newTable = selectedSheet.addTable(usedRange, true);
//get table
let tbl: ExcelScript.Table = selectedSheet.getTable("Table1");
The newTable's name is not guaranteed to be Table1. So if it wasn't, your flow might not work correctly. You could get around that by setting tbl to the newTable. So you could either write code like this:
let newTable = selectedSheet.addTable(usedRange, true);
//get table
let tbl: ExcelScript.Table = newTable;
Or just update tbl to code like this:
let tbl: ExcelScript.Table = selectedSheet.addTable(usedRange, true);