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Update documents in SharePoint online library from excel

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Hello !

I have documents in SharePoint Online Library that doesn't contain metadata. The metadata are on Excel sheet. Due the huge number of documents, it is not easy job to do it manually . 

Is there any way to automate this task and copy the metadata and paste is on the corresponding document?

Regards,

  • rpawliko Profile Picture
    rpawliko 12 on at
    Update documents in SharePoint online library from excel
    I'm having the same problem. I have a user with 300 documents that they want to upload to SharePoint. They maintain information about the documents in an Excel spreadsheet - Department, Category, Last Review Date, Next Review Date, etc.
     
    We want to upload the documents into a SharePoint Document Library (NOT A LIST), and then run a Power Automate workflow that will match the filename in the Document library to the file name listed in the spreadsheet, and import the values in the Excel columns and bring them into the columns in the Document library.
     
    I can find scores of references to updating a SharePoint list from Excel, but not updating column values in a document library from Excel.
     
    Why is this so hard?
  • ramsabi Profile Picture
    ramsabi 84 on at
    Re: Update documents in SharePoint online library from excel

    Did you find a solution for this? Please share if you did find a solution. I have the identical requirement.

  • Kameel Profile Picture
    Kameel 2 on at
    Re: Update documents in SharePoint online library from excel

    Can you please help to create this flow? the given link is confusing me.

    Many Thanks!

  • MattMarcilio Profile Picture
    MattMarcilio on at
    Re: Update documents in SharePoint online library from excel

    Hi there,

    You could create a Power Automate that would use the data from the Excel spreadsheet to create a SharePoint document. Below is a blog post that might help you draft this flow:

    Import Excel data into an existing SharePoint List using Power Automate – Norm Young

    In case you need any assistance creating this, my recommendation is to reach out to a Microsoft Partner that specializes in Power Automate.

     

    Regards,

     

    Matt

     

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