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I made a flow that will read out a pdf file and extract information from it and then create a new file with that data on a sharepoint document library.

I added a step that will check from what year the document is, create a folder for that year if it doesn't exist and then move the document into that folder, however it keeps refusing to move the file into the folder after it created it.

The API 'sharepointonline' returned an invalid response for workflow operation 'Move_file' of type 'OpenApiConnection'. Error details: 'The API operation 'MoveFileAsync' requires the property 'body' to be of type 'Object' but is of type 'String'.'

Does anyone know how I can solve this? I've tried as much as I could think of...

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I don't believe that the create folder action will throw an error if the folder already exists. So, you can likely remove that check if you want.

Can you post a screen shot of your Flow in design view?

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I believe that the Move File action wants the file identifier rather than the ID. Believe it or not they are not the same.

Try feeding Move file the Identifier and let me know how it goes.

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I tried that but it still wouldn't work.
I had to use the full path variable in the "file to move" box and in the destination folder I had to add the name of the document library for it to work.
Weird but it works now 🙂

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