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What's the "right way" to get the contents of a Sharepoint folder when you have the path as a string in a variable? The List folder action takes the folder id, not the folder path and the Get files doesn't take a path either (I have the folder path as text in two variables).

As mentioned here https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Using-Flows/List-folder-sharepoint-using-Microsoft-Flow/td-p/30255 I can replace(concat(string1, string2), '/', '%252f') but that's an ugly hack:

Unmaintainable if the Flow team decides to change the internal format of the Folder Id
Begs the question: are there any other characters apart from '/' that needs to be encoded? Which ones?

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Hi @MS2,

Could you please share a screenshot of your flow's configuration?

Could you please show a bit more about your two variables that you mentioned?

Thanks for your feedback, I could not find any document about encoding the special character (such as, '/', '_','-', etc.) within File Identifier or Folder Identifier currently. If I find the document related to it, I would reply here.

Best regards,

Kris

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Hi Kris, I have adopted the replace(concat(string1, string2), '/', '%252f') until I find some other solution. Is there somewhere I could read about which variable formats that are planned as persistent between flow generations. If the official stance is that the Folder Id/File identifier will forever be the encoded path then the above approach is ok (but still ugly). So there are no other encodings apart from the /?

The full expression above goes
replace(concat('/contact/', string(items('Apply_to_each')?['ATSDocumentsFolder'])),'/','%252f')

Best regards,
MS

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