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Create a new document library and populate it with folders in a single flow?

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Hi,

I am trying to create a Flow that will create a document library then add a number of folders to it. I can do this using two flows but I wanted to streamline this to a single flow. The issue I am hitting is I can't create a folder in the newly created document library because it doesn't exist yet, hence I get this error:

Is there a way I can get around this? Can I call another flow maybe, if so how would I pull in parameter from the previous flow? Or is there a better way to do this?

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RobC-CTL 18 on at

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Create a new document library and populate it with folders in a single flow?

Nived - genius! - thanks!
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Nived_Nambiar 17,722 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at

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Create a new document library and populate it with folders in a single flow?

Hi,

Try like below

Expression -

body('Send_an_HTTP_request_to_SharePoint')?['d']?['Id']

Here the send http request creates the document library and second create folder action creates the folder on that created document library using its id with above expression to capture id of document library created.

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AnthonyAmador 2,553 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at

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Create a new document library and populate it with folders in a single flow?

Hi,

Unfortunately, this is not possible using the name of the List or Library. You normally see the names of the libraries in the drop-down option, but in the backend, that is an entity ID. If you can find a way to extract the ID of that new library and enter it as a custom value, it might work.

Hope this helps.

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