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Delete HTML file from OneDrive Document Folder

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Posted on by Phineas

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I have created a flow that generates an HTML and PDF file.

Once the PDF file is generated, I want the flow to delete the associated HTML file.

I have added a 'Delay' (1 min.) action to make sure the files are generated successfully.

My flow keeps kicking back and error that the HTML file cannot be found (404 error).

The HTML is file can be seen in the folder (see below).

What am I missing.

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Delete HTML file from OneDrive Document Folder

Is the .html file you want to delete created earlier in the same flow? If so, try refering to it by the ID output of the action that created the file.

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Will using the 'ID' delete all items in the Document folder (which is why I was using the file name)?

How will the flow know to ONLY delete the newly created html file?

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Delete HTML file from OneDrive Document Folder

I implemented your recommendation and used 'Id' in the 'Delete file' action.

This deleted both the html and pdf file. How do I delete ONLY the html file?

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Yes, using 'Id' does work. I choose the wrong 'Id' the first time around.

I needed to choose -
outputs('Create_file')?['body/Id']

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