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Sharepoint Document Library - updated Created by and Modified by (Author and Editor)

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I have a power automate that is adding a document to a document library in another site and adding metadata. The created by and modified by is the service account that is used to create the document in the library. I would like to update these columns to be that of the person that initially created the file. I am using a Send HTTP request to SharePoint, but I must not be getting the syntax correct. I can find many, many example of where folks use this when updating Editor/Author on SharePoint lists, but nothing for libraries. Maybe they are the same, but I can't seem to get the URI part correct in order to make the change.

Maybe Send HTTP request to SharePoint isn't the way to do that or someone has a reference they could point to. I appreciate your assistance!

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Re: Sharepoint Document Library - updated Created by and Modified by (Author and Editor)

Hi @AnnetteM,

Can you share a screenshot of your current setup? This way we can double check your URI.

The URI should include the validateUpdateListItem method:

_api/web/lists/GetByTitle('<LibraryName>')/items(<ItemIDOfFile>)/validateUpdateListItem

Below is a blog from @tom_riha who has shared an example for the Author and Editor fields. (it is a list example, but for the library it should work exactly the same).

https://tomriha.com/how-to-change-sharepoint-item-author-created-by-with-power-automate/

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Re: Sharepoint Document Library - updated Created by and Modified by (Author and Editor)

Thanks to the blog reference. I was using that as a source!

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Re: Sharepoint Document Library - updated Created by and Modified by (Author and Editor)

I was able to re-check my syntax in the body section and found that I was using double quotes around the \'Key'\ and \'i:0#.f|membership\xxx\' sections. Thanks again for including the blog as it had me double check my syntax which was not correct!

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