add-excel

Adds Excel Online (Business) connector to a Power Apps code app. Use when reading or writing Excel workbook data from OneDrive or SharePoint.

Provider: Microsoft Power Platform APIs Path in repo: plugins/code-apps/skills/add-excel/SKILL.md

Skill body

πŸ“‹ Shared Instructions: shared-instructions.md - Cross-cutting concerns.

Add Excel Online

Workflow

  1. Check Memory Bank β†’ 2. Gather β†’ 3. Add Connector β†’ 4. Configure β†’ 5. Build β†’ 6. Update Memory Bank

Step 1: Check Memory Bank

Check for memory-bank.md per shared-instructions.md.

Step 2: Gather

Ask the user:

  1. Where is the workbook? (OneDrive or SharePoint)
  2. Workbook file name
  3. Which table(s) in the workbook to access

Step 3: Add Connector

First, find the connection ID (see connector-reference.md):

Run the /list-connections skill. Find the Excel Online (Business) connection in the output. If none exists, direct the user to create one using the environment-specific Connections URL β€” construct it from the active environment ID in context (from power.config.json or a prior step): https://make.powerapps.com/environments/<environment-id>/connections β†’ + New connection β†’ search for the connector β†’ Create.

Excel Online is a tabular datasource – requires -c (connection ID), -d (drive), and -t (table name in workbook):

# OneDrive workbook
npx power-apps add-data-source -a excelonlinebusiness -c <connection-id> -d 'me' -t 'Table1'

# SharePoint workbook -- dataset is the document library path
npx power-apps add-data-source -a excelonlinebusiness -c <connection-id> -d 'sites/your-site' -t 'Table1'

Run for each table the user needs.

Step 4: Configure

AddRowIntoTable – adds a row to an Excel table:

// OneDrive workbook
await ExcelOnlineBusinessService.AddRowIntoTable({
  source: "me",
  drive: "me",
  file: "MyWorkbook.xlsx",
  table: "Table1",
  body: { column1: "value1", column2: "value2" } // Flat object, NO "items" wrapper
});

// SharePoint workbook
await ExcelOnlineBusinessService.AddRowIntoTable({
  source: "sites/your-site",
  drive: "drive-id",
  file: "SharedWorkbook.xlsx",
  table: "Table1",
  body: { column1: "value1", column2: "value2" }
});

Key points:

Use Grep to find specific methods in src/generated/services/ExcelOnlineBusinessService.ts (generated files can be very large – see connector-reference.md).

Step 5: Build

npm run build

Fix TypeScript errors before proceeding. Do NOT deploy yet.

Step 6: Update Memory Bank

Update memory-bank.md with: connector added, workbook/table configured, build status.

Skill frontmatter

user-invocable: true allowed-tools: Read, Edit, Write, Grep, Glob, Bash, LSP, TaskCreate, TaskUpdate, TaskList, TaskGet, AskUserQuestion, Skill model: sonnet

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