Microsoft Syntex not triggering after power automate saved documents into a library - sharepoint

I am using Microsoft Syntex Content understanding on a specific Document library in Sharepoint (M365).When files are dragged into the library manually, content processing starts as expected and delivers results.
When files are added to the library with a power automate flow, the content processing does not start (not until some other files are added manually again).
Any ideas if this is a config issue?
I tried waiting (files had not been processed on the next day), checked licensing and permissions. The issue stayed, content understanding starts only when triggered by manual file upload.

We opened a case with MS Support and it started working a few days later. Case closed by Engineer without further explanation.
From our side we made sure we had the correct licensing in place, eliminated all complexity from power automate so that only plain pdfs landed in the syntex library.

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I have created a tool using VBA that performs several pulls from BigQuery and does a variety of transformations and summarization inside of Excel. The tool is an evolving tool and to make sure that the users are using the most current version of the tool, I would like to have a version file saved on the shared Teams page that the tool would check and if needed, download the newest version onto the tool to the user's folder. I have scrubbed the web for several solutions to this ask but not one that actually works. Below are the links to the solutions I have attempted. The issue is that the connectors for opening text files seem to not work with a URL from Teams. I need to know how to make this work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
https://www.excel-easy.com/vba/examples/read-data-from-text-file.html
This solution doesn't seem to work with a URL as I get a Bad Filename error.
https://chandoo.org/forum/threads/download-file-from-sharepoint-and-save-it-in-system-folder.41779/
Problem with this one is that the download for some reason shows completed but actually never moves local.
Connecting to Excel file stored on SharePoint via ADODB
https://www.connectionstrings.com/textfile/
I attempted to use this solution using the text file connection string but was not successful here either.
https://www.exceltip.com/import-and-export-in-vba/import-data-from-a-text-file-ado-using-vba-in-microsoft-excel.html
Again, another bad name error.
Any help or advice on how to connect to a simple text file shared in a Teams folder would be greatly appreciated.

Issue With Files Not Opening With Office365

My company uses a SharePoint site for our department where we share resources and documentation. We currently have a primary Excel sheet linked that contains a massive amount of our day to day info and our most common hurdles and pertains to about 80% of our workflow. This was created before the company switched (recently) to Office365 and the web based applications vs the standalone programs. Now it is not letting anyone open the the sheet because it is still trying to open in the Excel program and not the web app.
We previously used Office '13 and there was never any issue. The link is meant to open the Excel sheet right up in a read only capacity and not save the program because the content is being updated regularly with new information and regulations. With the "upgrade" from the older version of Office to the 365 web based standard version this link no longer opens the file directly, it saves to the PC and then needs to be loaded to the web app from the saved version which completely negates the ability for it to be dynamically updated. Inversely, we could import that into One Drive and update it to the new system and set the link to the view only shareable link but that would take an excessive amount of time to reformat and edit on top of everything else. If that is how we need to do it then that is how we need to do it, but is there anyway to just update the link already in the system so that it can allow the file to be opened in the web app as well as the stand alone for those not upgraded yet or with the advanced version (managers) that still uses the programs and not the web apps?
I expect the file to be able to be opened in Office365 Excel web app read only as opposed to being saved to the local machine and if possible also be opened directly in the standalone Excel program for those using the 365 Advanced version or who have not yet completed the upgrade process that the company is currently rolling out.
Thank you for your time with this.
We solved this by simply upgrading the whole department and to the Office 365 Advanced version circumventing the entire issue, thank you for your time regardless.

Sharepoint - Link to a file that is updated Dynamically?

I'm hoping this is possible.
The organization I work for has a Sharepoint site and I am able to Upload Files to pages, however I am not an admin on our Sharepoint. I'm not sure what the version is, I think its older (ie: 2005).
I have some Excel Reports I've built. The data for these reports is pulled from a SQL Server Database which I have full control over. I have setup a Job in SQL Server to run every 12 minutes, this procedure pulls in some data and updates a few tables. These tables are used to feed my Excel Reports.
I have a separate Scheduled task set to open my excel report(s) refresh the data connections and save as a PDF.
I would like to link to these PDF Files via our Sharepoint so that the VIPs can access the reports as they want, but they always see the most up to date report.
I was trying to link to a Shortcut to the PDF Files but SharePoint doesn't seem to like that. How do I make the SharePoint link point to the PDF File that is saved over every 15 minutes?
Thanks in advance,
Any insight is greatly appreciated.
The way I do it (newish version of Sharepoint) is make the save location for the PDF the network location where Sharepoint keeps the files for that site. Usually you'll have access to those if you can edit the Sharepoint site.
Here is a tutorial to find that network location.
EDIT: It very well may be disabled by the admin at the moment. But it looks like the functionality is there.
Given the age of your SharePoint (either 03 or 07), most of the modern tools that you could use to do this don't exist for you (Excel reporting, BI tools, etc). The easiest solution I can think of is to actually modify the other side of the equation. A few options:
Change your report to output two copies of the same file. One entitled (as an example) currentreport.xls and the other report20150626.xls . Put the link to the currentreport.xls in SharePoint.
Build an ASP.net page that runs the SQL query you have built and pull the data through a view. Since this would be pulled on demand, it may be a few more cycles of your SQL code, but indexing, caching and selective data pull can prevent this from being an issue. Put the asp.net code in an iFrame in a SharePoint content editor web part.
Build your report using SSRS and host the output of that in SharePoint using an iFrame.
Run a scheduled job in SQL that copies your current report data to a table and query that table instead of your normal report table. That way you only have one Excel file that points to a specific table so no need to update links. You can always keep copying data to specific files if you need a historical record and can't use the DB to store this data for you (though the amount of space that it would take to do so would be minimal).

SharePoint Online file storage

We have a requirement to store documents in SharePoint Online as people copy files to a shared network directly.
Is there a way of automating this? I was thinking of a windows service which will poll the directories, find any changes like new subdirectories or new files, then upload them to a SharePoint Online document library.
You don't have to poll if you use a FileSystemWatcher inside your Windows service for real-time notifications.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.filesystemwatcher.aspx
However, if your requirement is 100% accuracy, you will need to build in some sort of tracking/checksum mechanism to make sure that every document was 1) detected and 2) successfully moved to SharePoint.
You may want to have your service check the delta every time it starts up, and then subsequently only respond to FileSystemWatcher events.
EDIT: Per Tony's question below, here are some additional thoughts on getting files to SharePoint.
First, try a simple test.
1) Copy the URL of a document library within the BPOS SharePoint site. Make sure you're on a machine that has the Office Online sign in app on it.
2) Open Notepad. Type some random text.
3) Click on File -> Save As.
4) Paste the URL.
5) Attempt to save the file.
This works great on "regular" SharePoint (done it many times). If this works with BPOS, it opens up several options.
File System Replication to a SharePoint Online or Office 365 document library is planned to be released with the "Cloud Connector for Office 365". With the current version database content is supported only, but bi-directional with V2.0

SharePoint 2007 Word Document Conversion Very Slow

I'm calling the SharePoint API (SPFile.Convert - MOSS 2007) to convert a docx to html with the out-of-the-box Word to HTML converter.
According to the SharePoint logs, the Launcher Service tries to start the DocXPageConverter.exe process immediately. Then, around 7 minutes later the logs report that the process has been successfully created.
I see DocXPageConverter.exe briefly appear in task manager right at the end of this time. So, the conversion appears to run quickly once the process has started.
What's causing this long delay?
You can try using Aspose.Words for SharePoint that can (among other things) convert DOCX to HTML. It does not use the converter engine of MOSS and might work faster than what you are seeing.
In Central Administration, go to Application Management > Configure Document Conversions. In this section there is a Conversion Schedule. Try setting the schedule to Every 1 Minute. I've tried this but my document conversion is still shockingly slow - hopefully you will get more benefit though :)

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