I created a Logic App that uses the Sharepoint trigger "When a file is created or modified in a folder". It works perfectly when I upload a file in Sharepoint online (in a Sharepoint browser tab). But, it doesn't work when I drop a file in my synced Windows explorer folder.
I read that someone faced the same problem: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/41215/logic-app-why-does-sharepoint-file-properties-trig.html. Here it says:
Move files and flow runs When you move one or more files from one
document library to another, the original file is moved from the
source library to the destination library. Moving the file does not
alter any custom metadata, including when the file was created and
modified. Hence, this action does not trigger any flows for those file
updates associated in the library where it was moved.
Syncing files to your OneDrive for business and SharePoint document
libraries When users sync one or more files from one document library
to another, the original file is moved (synced) from your client to
the destination library. Syncing the file will not alter any custom
metadata including when the file was created and modified. Hence, this
action will not trigger any flows for those file syncs in that library
or in your OneDrive for business.
The thing is that I NEED this Logic App to run by just dropping this file in a Windows Explorer folder (which is a Sharepoint folder shared with a certain person). Do you know how can I achieve this?
It started working for me when I used the OneDrive - When a file is created Connector because we use OneDrive for Windows Explorer and need to include the folder where the trigger should be invoked. We must set Include subfolder to true if we want the trigger to be fired while adding any file to the subfolders.
Here are the screenshots of the logic app working
When adding file in subfolders
When adding file in root folder
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I am currently testing my newly created workflow. The goal is to copy the files from sharepoint to blobstorage.
It needs to check in certain intervals if something has been added or updated in sharepoint and then copy it.
For this I use 'When a file is created or modified (properties only)', followed by a couple of 'Initialize variable' to adjust path etc. and after that comes 'Get file content'. At the end 'Upload blob to storage container'.
It works fine, however it only copies the files that have been added/updated to sharepoint after workflow was created.
My question is if it is possible to copy also the files that were already in sharepoint before creating workflow.
Thanks : ))
After reproducing from my end, I could able to get this done by listing the files from required folder and creating the blob using Get file content using path. Below is the flow of my logic app.
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We are using Logic App to move data from a Sharepoint folder to an Azure Blob Storage.
We were using the Sharepoint trigger "When a file is created or modified in a folder". Unfortunately, this trigger has been deprecated and does not work anymore (i.e., when a file is indeed created or modified, no further action is done after running the trigger).
No file is moved around anymore. The trigger does not execute the Logic App even though a file is created or modified in the Sharepoint origin folder. I have been through the various other Sharepoint triggers but they do not seem to fit our use case. We cannot create a Logic App for each file. We are not using Sharepoint lists but classic folders. We could use several triggers pointing directly at each existin file, but as we have many files to move in the same folder, we would have to create many Logic Apps and that is not how we want to do it. Moreover, some new files may be created in the future.
What could we do to keep the same architecture of moving data around from Sharepoint to Blob Storage through the non-deprecated Logic App triggers?
Thank you in advance,
Alexis
You can use When a file is created or modified (properties only) and get the properties of the file that is getting created or updated. Then you can use Get file content using the properties from the previous step. Finally, you can create a blob using the previous steps. Below is the flow of my logic app.
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I have two Excel files one is in SharePoint and another is in network shared folder. If SharePoint Excel file updates(the numbers), automatically the network shared folder Excel file also needs to update. As the Excel files is in two different share paths. Is it possible to do that?
--excel file in SharePoint location.(Source File)
--excel file in network shared folder. (Destination file)
Here, the source file is in SharePoint and destination file in network shared folder, which needs to update automatically after the file in SharePoint got updates.
Please help me if that it is possible. Thanks!
Manyam,
One option to achieve this requirement by creating simple Power Automate flow.
Once the excel file is updated in SharePoint, you can send (replace) the file in Network shared folder.
I'm using Azure Logic Apps to copy files from FTP to Blob Storage. I'm using the action "FTP - When a file is added or modified" and after this I copy the file content to a Blob Storage.
The problem is that the file is being copied to Blob Storage before it is completely added to the FTP, and I get partial files.
Is there any way to hold Azure Logic Apps such that it will only copy the file after it is completed?
This behavior happens when your FTP file system does not provide file locking. Similar behavior can occur when using the FTP-adapter in BizTalk.
In BizTalk, the best way to handle this is by modifying the client that is creating the file on FTP so that it uses temporary filenames.
Client creates file ftpFile.tmp
Client writes file content
Client renames ftpFile.tmp to ftpFile.xml or whatever extension is needed
BizTalk only picks up files with extension .xml
Major problem for me with the Logic Apps FTP connector is that you can't specify a file mask in the designer when using the connector as a trigger, which is strange, because i remember that option being available in the first version of logic apps.
You need to Enable the Include File Content Option.
You can do this in 2 ways.
1.
Go to LogicAppDesigner->Expand your FTP-Trigger ->Set yes to Include File Content
Like this
Go to Logic App Code View-> find the Trigger JSON- > Add "includeFileContent": true inside the "Queries"
I'd like to force sharepoint to save files in directory. Is there a way to do that?
I think about this scenario: users upload files to some list / library in sharepoint and automatically or by pushing "publish" the files are copied to some local server's directory.
Edit:
In other words i would like to connect sharepoint library with physical directory in server that runs IIS, so that files uploaded to library were seen in that folder.
I'm new to sharepoint.
Are you talking about Remote BLOB Storage? I have not tried this and assume that RBS can be enabled for a Site level only and not for individual document libraries. If you want this for a particular doc library, you can write an event handler to save the uploaded documents to file system and then remove the uploaded file.
Most likely you don't want to do this. If you're doing it in order to access the files from other applications, or having them show up in a users home directory or something, you can just map the document library as a network drive/web folder.