Dynamic Excel Read of a dated sheet name from a dated file name

[MarqueeCrew]

This wasn't pretty (actually, it was challenging and pretty when I was done with it)!

My client receives files that include a static and dated name portion (e.g. Data for 2018 July.xlsx) within the file there are multiple sheets.  One sheet contains a keyword (e.g. Reported Data) but the sheet name also includes a variable component (e.g. July Reported Data).  I needed to first read a directory to find the most recent file, then when I wanted to supply the dynamic input with the sheet name I wasn't able to use a pattern. 

The solution was to use a dynamic input tool just to read sheet names and append the filtered name to the original Full Path.

[FullPath] + "|||<List of Sheet Names>"

This could then feed a dynamic input.

Given the desire to automate the read of newly received "excel" data and the fluidity of the naming of both files and sheets, more flexibility in the dynamic input is requested.

Cheers,

Mark

[SeanAdams]

Hey @MarqueeCrew

Would it help if there were a way to address a relative sheet rather than an absolute sheet name?

What I'm thinking is that your dated sheet name may always be sheet 1 or 2 in the list, and the way that we'd handle this if we were building it in Visual C# for Office would be to look at sheets[1] irrespective of the sheet name?

[MarqueeCrew]

Can't rely on Excel. 

[Wangwn]

Mark, 

Can you show how to configure the dynamic input tool?

Thanks! 

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[Nezrin]

Completely agree - feel that the dynamic tool could be much more. Even having the option to dynamically append with a field name based on the input file name would be awesome