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I'm quite new to power automate, so excuse me if i'm asking a rookie question.

I would like to create a set of folders bases on a list in excel. From the excel file I would like to get the employee name and create a folder for every name in de list.

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Create year folder (current year)
Create subfolder for every employee
Create Word file based on template in folder with employee name.
Share sharepoint link to Word file with employee (email adres is in the excel list)

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When a new row is created in the Excel file do the flow for that row.

Maybe it is an ambitious flow, for now i'm stuck in creating a folder based on the excel list. Some tips would be very welcome

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Hi @Anonymous

Please follow the below steps to create folder and subfolder

For the current year you need to use formatDateTime expression. See below.

formatDateTime(utcNow(),'yyyy')

The final step I have hardcoded the name as Smith. You can change this to map dynamically from your Excel sheet.

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Thank you for your quick reply. For looping thru the excel rows for the names do I need to put in a "get a row" step between the create main folder and create subfolder? I was trying to do that but I don't now what to put in the Key value field.

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Hi @Anonymous

Could you post a sample screenshot of your Excel Sheet?

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I would like to use the 'Employee' column as the name of the subfolder. And eventually 'Mail' to send the share link

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Hi @Anonymous

Please follow the below steps

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Thank you for your help @abm
I have the basics working, one last question. The folder creation in sharepoint(teams) is happening in the Root folder and I’m not able to select a subfolder, like /general/

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Hi @Anonymous

Thanks for your reply. Are you referencing about the subfolder select trigger? If not please explain?

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I'm bit of a step further, i'm able to create the main folder in General, where I want it. But i'm still doing something wrong in the create subfolder(Maak subfolder). For this he is creating a folder names shared documents then he is creating a complete new path document/general/and then the subfolders.

Am I taking over the wrong value in create subfolder?

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Hi @abm
I haven't changed the flow but i now get this error, where before this was running fine. And i'm testing with the same excel file

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Hi @Anonymous

Looks like you are hitting the threshold limit. I can see 5120 record in that loop to process. How many total records in Excel?

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