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Sharepoint create file not creating file in correct format

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Posted on by Zubeyr

I am pretty new to Microsoft Flow and it seemed to work for me until the end of the flow.

My flow is: When a new item is created in sharepoint list - > create a file in sharepoint. And its pretty wierd, because the flow is not giving me any error, but only when im trying to open the file, im getting this error in the app:

I have tried to open file in desktop word, no luck. And also tried different formats like: .doc , .pdf and .txt

Here is my flow:

I am creating a new item - Only using 2 fields. Afterwards its creating a file in a given document library in sharepoint.

As mentioned above its not possible to open it.

The result looks like this:

I dont know why, but the output is in HTML format. The "e-mail" field is RTF and the layout turns into Word when im typing something there.

html content.jpg

What am I doing wrong? Any ideas?

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Re: Sharepoint create file not creating file in correct format

Hi Zubeyr,

I have just tested with the same flow like yours and I got the same result. After some test, I think this is normal behavior. I think the "File Content" field does not mean that you put some value inside the file. You need to give this field a complete file extracted from the previous trigger/action.

For example, if your trigger is "OneDrive - When a file is created", then in "SharePoint create a new file" action, you put the OneDrive file in the "File Content" field, then it could be opened from sp site successfully.

Hope the explanation is clear enough.

Regards,

Mona

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Zubeyr 2 on at

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Re: Sharepoint create file not creating file in correct format

Hey Mona.

Thanks for you reply, but it is not the right solution.

When im choosing "Onedrive - when a file is created" -> its asking about windows live login and not business/organization account.
And right now im usin Onedrive nextgen and no way i am going back to onedrive for business. Just to make sure i have also tested with Onedrive for business and i could only choose the /root folder.

The reason for im trying this flow is, only because of attached files is not availible in my flow.

The flow i want is: Create an item in sharepoint list and while creating: attach a file. Like here:

Then add the file in sharepoint and afterwards send the attached file.

I have tried a lot of time to do that, but its not possible to use the attached file in flow - as i understand

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Lids 2 on at

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Re: Sharepoint create file not creating file in correct format

Try using an expression to create the file name.

Example:
concat(variables('TransmittalName'),'.xlsx')

In your case replace "TransmittalName" with the "Titel" dynamic content and the "xlsx" with the correct file extention.

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