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Sharepoint flow to mover folders

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Hi all,

 

I'm wondering if it's possible to get some help on this please? I'm very new to Microsoft flows, in fact I didn't know such a thing existed until I was searching for a solution to my problem. I have created a flow which works to a level but it is doing things I don't want it to do, along with doing what I do what it to do. 

 

Basically, I want to move a set of folders from one location to another within the same SharePoint365 document library & then notify a set of users via outlook365 email.

 

Folder structure:

  • Teams (This folder needs to stay where it is)
    • Team 1 (This folder needs to stay where it is due to user permissions)
      • * Contents inside this folder (Team 1) need to be moved, this can contain a mixture of single files and/or folders with files inside that
    • Team 2 (This folder needs to stay where it is due to user permissions)
      • * Contents inside this folder (Team 1) need to be moved, this can contain a mixture of single files and/or folders with files inside that
    • and so on till team 40
  • Teams to process (This is where I want the contents of Teams 1 & 2 folders to go. The flow needs to have a delay of 1 hour before the move takes place & is done automatically but also under the created by name/email)

So for example:

The flow is triggered when a user adds/creates files/folders within the team 1 or 2 folder, after 1 hour the contents are moved to the "Team to process" folder in the structure of Teams to process/created by name&email/(contents of the team 1 folder) and then the same for team 2 and so on. After the move is complete, send a single email to a given set of users with a notification that there are files to process from team 1 or 2 etc... 

 

I have managed to do this to a point but I get an email for each file/folder created & sometimes there could be 30 items within each team folder so I would end up getting a hell of a lot of emails! I also have an issue where it moves the correct sub folders & the files within them but it also duplicates the files outside of the sub folder.

 

It would be great if someone could point me in the right direction on this, it's took me a week to get to this point

 

Cheers

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  • RaashiSen Profile Picture
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    Re: Sharepoint flow to mover folders

    hello @Pedro2020 ,

     

    If I understood your ask correctly, we can add one additional step where we can capture the names in an Array datatype variable, and use that to send a single email with the names of the Files to the users informing, to avoid multiple emails.

     

    I can think of using HTML table as well, but that is something I can try on my end and maybe inform you. 

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