Azure Data Factory - Write to Excel

Rakesh Singh 16 Reputation points
2022-01-27T19:41:43.153+00:00

I have been looking for a way to export data from Azure Blob store container having csv files into Excel after doing some transformations/filtering etc.,

There are about 40 Excel reports with pre defined colour/format etc to be generated every day.

I was under the impression ADF can be used but there is sink to excel option in ADF.

Its quite a simple ask within SSIS but ADF doesn't seem to have such?

Has anyone tried doing such an export with Custom Activity?
Perhaps creating Excel application instance in c# and writing data to it and saving to either blob store or one drive/sharepoint?

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  1. svijay-MSFT 5,201 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2022-01-28T16:38:17.407+00:00

    Hello @Rakesh Singh ,

    Thanks for the ask and using Microsoft Q&A platform .

    If my understanding is correct, you would like to pull in CSV files that are stored in the Blob and write it as Excel File.

    Like you mentioned/aware - currently - the ADF doesn't support Excel as a sink. Having said that, I would suggest you to provide feedback on the same:

    Feedback Portal - Azure Data factory

    All of the feedback you share in these forums will be monitored and reviewed by the Microsoft engineering teams responsible for building Azure.

    Now the work around I can think is making use of Logic App / Power Automate.

    You could pull in the CSV file and do data manipulation (Filtering/Transformation store it in an Excel file.

    Reference : https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/a08b6d3a-f492-4f26-9309-e172553e9fdf/convert-csv-to-excel-in-azure-blob-storage?forum=azurelogicapps

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    You get the data for each row - you will perform any applicable transformation - update each row to excel

    Please do let me know how it goes.

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