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File stored into an folder, changing name everyday!

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Posted on by JakesJan

Hi PowerAutomate Community!

I am new at creating flows, hope you can help me 🙂 

 

There is a report generated every day on Sharepoint, I need to extract the new rows of this file that have been added to my reporting file. However:

  • The name changes: the name of the file is the date when it has been generated (ex: 01.05.2022)
  • This file is stored in a folder with the same name. So File 01.05.2022 is stored in Folder 01.05.2022 and so on...
  • There are several files for up to 3 days.

An idea of how it looks like:

JakesJan_0-1641401873827.png

 

So my idea was to extract the most recent file created but it is giving me hard time knowing how to proceed as it is also stored in a folder (which contains only this file).

 

Any advice?

 

Many thanks 

 

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  • DamoBird365 Profile Picture
    DamoBird365 8,942 Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi @JakesJan 

     

    Here is an example:

     

    DamoBird365_0-1641409972685.png

     

    The expression you want to use is :

     

    formatDateTime(utcnow(),'dd.MM.yyyy')

     

    US format 😁 formatDateTime(utcnow(),'MM.dd.yyyy')

     

    Please consider accepting my answer as a solution if it helps to solve your problem.

    Cheers
    Damien

    Please take a look and subscribe to my YouTube Channel for more Power Platform ideas and concepts, or take a look at my website. Thanks

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