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Hey guys,

So I have read a few posts but cant find anything that fits my particular scenario.

Our client creates a new folder in the projects folder (when a new project is started). That should then trigger a flow to create a static set of folders with some folders having additional sub-folders. The part that I'm stuck on is the sub-folder for certain folders.

So this would be a sample of what I'm trying to create. Create parent folder "Project A" and then the flow creates the folder set:

[
 Name: "1 Legal"
 Name: "2 Client"
	Subfolders:
		Name: "1 Samples"
		Name: "2 Invoices"
		Name: "3 Reports
 Name: "3 Design"
 Name: "4 Reports"
 Name: "5 Safety"
	Subfolders:
		Name: "1 Induction"
		Name: "2 First Aid"
		Name: "3 Training"
 Name: "6 Admin"
	Subfolders:
		Name: "1 Procedures"
		Name: "2 Employment"
		Name: "3 Templates"
 Name: "7 Handover"
 Name: "8 Maintenance"
]

This was the basic flow

Step 1: Watch for a new folder and have the following trigger conditions

@equals(triggerOutputs()?['body/{IsFolder}'],true)
@equals(triggerOutputs()?['body/{Path}'],'Shared Documents/')

Step 2: Create the folder structure array

Step 3: Compose the "Document library\Parent folder name"

DL = first(split(triggerOutputs()?['body/{Path}'],'/'))
PFN = triggerOutputs()?['body/{Name}']

Step 4: Condition: Is this a folder (true or false)

Step 5: Apply to each and create a new folder

The other option I was thinking of was create a document library and have the actual file structure there and then when a parent folder is created, copy the folder structure to that new parent folder

Source:

Target:

This would be the action

Destination Folder: /Shared Documents/Project A ( triggerOutputs()?['body/{Name}'] )

The problem I'm facing here is that it wants to copy an actual folder and not just this libraries contents. So in order to get it to work I need to create a folder within "folder structure" but that then copies that folder with contents to the target rather than just the contents.

Hope this all makes sense, ideally i would like option 1 to work but also would like to know what I'm doing wrong with option 2

Thanks

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