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I'm working on a flow to do some dynamic logic to determine the appropriate folder to file an email in within Outlook. I'm running into a problem supplying the folder parameter to the Move Email (v2) programmatically.

From looking at the peak code piece after using the selector is the action expecting that folder name to be provided via a GUID rather than a humanly readable path/folder name? If so, is there any way to determine that programmatically by supplying a human-readable name to lookup the GUID in the flow?

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fchopo 8,003 Moderator on at

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Hello @jhardwick

I'm not sure I understand your problem, but in any case, I attach an example flow that is working, where I move an email to the drafts folder:

As you can see, the drafts folder is set in a compose action, so it's a dynamic value in the "Move email" action.

Hope it helps!
Ferran

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jhardwick 28 on at

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@fchopo you know you reach the point where you've looked at a problem for too long and need to stop and pick it up later, yep.. I was at that point.

My issue was that I was trying to reference a subfolder under Inbox and I had been using the format of Inbox\Subfolder instead of Inbox/Subfolder and I didn't think of trying that until reading your response and looking at things again.

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Hi! I just found your thread and it looks like my exact problem. So you made it work using the the suggestion with the "Compose" action and it also worked for sub folders? I am trying to get this working with a shared mailbox.

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MichelH 401 on at

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Keen to know if this works on subfolders a level deeper.

I need to move mails to:
Inbox/Subfolder/New
Inbox/Subfolder/Ongoing
Inbox/Subfolder/Done

Where Subfolder would be a variable with one of 8 choices.

Thanks for any feedback

Br,
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Hi Michael,
i ended up using the internal "FolderId"s. You can obtain them in the requests when using the test button in the browser console. Putting them into the "folder" field works.

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MichelH 401 on at

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Thank you Heins,

Not sure that I understand what you mean on how to obtain these folderId's.
Am I correct that you copy these kind of keys? I see this using Peek code.

"parameters": { "messageId": "@items('Apply_to_each_4')?['id']", "folderPath": "Id::AAmKADMwNGU2zwE1LTFhZmEtNDMwMi04MmYwLThkOWYzMDA3ZjAwNgAuAAAAAABPl25eHUXgQqEdUbfVS5B8AQDD2FumZE_RTopraV1GiPOqAAACosOLAAA=" }, "authentication": "@parameters('$authentication')" }, "metadata": { "Id::AAmKADMwNGU2zwE1LTFhZmEtNDMwMi04MmYwLThkOWYzMDA3ZjAwNgAuAAAAAABPl25eHUXgQqEdUbfVS5B8AQDD2FumZE_RTopraV1GiPOqAAABQ_hTAAA=": "New", "Id::AAmKADMwNGU2zwE1LTFhZmEtNDMwMi04MmYwLThkOWYzMDA3ZjAwNgAuAAAAAABPl25eHUXgQqEdUbfVS5B8AQDD2FumZE_RTopraV1GiPOqAAACosOLAAA=": "Ongoing"

Because to me they seem like: Mailbox + "_" + MsgID, but not the FolderID.

The folderpath is equal to the second Id.

Br,
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Correct.

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MichelH 401 on at

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But the second ID is generated only when the move is done.
I don't yet know the new message ID when I want to do the move, from New to Ongoing.
I'm moving a new message every time.
I think I'm missing the point?

Br,
Michel

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A-M 41 on at

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Hi,

I am in a similar situation where i dynamically setting the path on the action Move email V2 and i have the folder structure on my shared mailbox like ABC/Year/Month(12 options) and i have to move the email to one of the Month folders.
It just fails saying "The specified folder doesn't exist." but i have the folder created on my share mailbox.

Did you figure out a solution?

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It's been a while since we did that, but if I recall correctly, the key was to NOT concat the dynamic value in the move action on the fly but predefine a variable (or compose it) and use that instead.

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