Send Sharepoint file content to Child flow

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Posted on 22 Sep 2023 21:22:09 by Angela23

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Hello experts

I am trying to send my file content from sharepoint to a child flow and create a file from child flow but I get errors all the time.
This is my Parent flow:

and this is my child flow:

Error:

your help will be appreciate a lot.
Regards
Angela

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Angela23 114 on 24 Sep 2023 at 15:19:49

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Re: Send Sharepoint file content to Child flow

Thank you soooooo soooo much
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Pstork1 67,351 Most Valuable Professional on 24 Sep 2023 at 13:35:32

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Re: Send Sharepoint file content to Child flow

You are trying to convert the file to PDF in the child flow actions. But the file you are saving to SharePoint uses the original file content that is passed to the child flow, which is not PDF. You need to create the file using the file content from the Convert to PDF action.
Angela23 114 on 24 Sep 2023 at 12:39:09

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Re: Send Sharepoint file content to Child flow

Sure, When a PDF is generated in the Child Flow from the file content received from the Parent Flow, it cannot be correctly opened.
Pstork1 67,351 Most Valuable Professional on 24 Sep 2023 at 12:36:02

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Re: Send Sharepoint file content to Child flow

Can you be more specific about what is wrong with the file?
Angela23 114 on 24 Sep 2023 at 12:02:35

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Re: Send Sharepoint file content to Child flow

@Pstork1 @FLMike
Hello again
Unfortunately the file is not saved correct 😞
Does is it has something to do with the file content?
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Pstork1 67,351 Most Valuable Professional on 23 Sep 2023 at 19:23:33

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Re: Send Sharepoint file content to Child flow

Nope, I thought maybe you were using the whole body. it should be

body('Get_file_content')['$content']

as @FLMike said. Otherwise you are feeding the connection an object that contains the file instead of a record that is the file. That's why you were getting the error.
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Angela23 114 on 23 Sep 2023 at 14:43:58

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Re: Send Sharepoint file content to Child flow

@FLMike and @Pstork1
Bingo Its working now. Thank you soooooo much for your help
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Michael E. Gernaey 46,546 Super User 2025 Season 2 on 23 Sep 2023 at 14:18:58

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Re: Send Sharepoint file content to Child flow

@Angela23

Please change the File Content (from the Run a Child flow), to this expression
body('Get_file_content')['$content']

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Angela23 114 on 23 Sep 2023 at 12:58:52

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Re: Send Sharepoint file content to Child flow

@Pstork1
when I hover over the body: body('Get_file_content')
But the JSON is very long:
Do you want me to download it for you? its more than 60.000 characters
Pstork1 67,351 Most Valuable Professional on 23 Sep 2023 at 12:18:19

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Re: Send Sharepoint file content to Child flow

When you hover over the file content what does the JSON look like?