web
You’re offline. This is a read only version of the page.
close
Skip to main content

Announcements

News and Announcements icon
Community site session details

Community site session details

Session Id :
Power Platform Community / Forums / Power Apps / Automating distributio...
Power Apps
Answered

Automating distribution of many files to many folders

(0) ShareShare
ReportReport
Posted on by 10

My apologies for the length of the post. I am hoping for advice on the questions at the end.

 

  1. I work for a service provider that manages ICT shared services for about 60 different entities.
  2. Each entity has a unique suite of services. My team is responsible for the monthly invoicing of the entities. The monthly process for charging each of the vendor services in summary is: (using mobile phones as an example)
  3. Rename the previous month's Excel service chargeback template to this month.
  4. Download the mobile phone charges CSV from the mobile service vendor's portal.
  5. Download the Employee Establishment Report that details the active employees of the 60 entities.
  6. Add this month's CSV and Active Employee data to the Monthly Excel template.
  7. The Monthly Excel template has a Summary and Detail tab with 60 entities under 12 overarching Portfolios.
  8. The template maps the individual user charges to one of the 60 entities on the Detail tab with the totals for the entities and Portfolios on the Summary tab.
  9. Next step is to group the Summary and Detail tabs - choose Move or Copy, copy to (new book) break links and name it  'Mobile Phone 202405 - All' .
  10. We copy the file 12 times, manually filter and delete all references to other Portfolios and save the file under the Portfolio name. Rinse & repeat for all 12 Portfolios.
  11. We have a SharePoint setup that has a folder for each Portfolio, with subfolders for each service provider. We place a copy of each 'Mobile Phone 202405 - Portfolio Number 1 of 12' into the Mobile Phone folder for each Portfolio.
  12. Previously we have been providing the Summary and Detail for the 12 Portfolios. For the coming financial year they want us to create a separate file for each of the 60 entities and place them in the vendor subfolders of each entity.
  13. We have around 20 Monthly Excel template processes.
  14. We have two people to do this and the number of separate mouse clicks and movements will end in occupational injuries.

Questions

I am hoping for a brief summary solution and some links to tutorials

  1. How could I automate the process of creating the 60 separate entity files? And 2) how can I automate the pushing of each of the entity files to the monthly folders?
Categories:
I have the same question (0)
  • Verified answer
    mmbr1606 Profile Picture
    14,629 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    hey @Graemess 

     

    please throw your question in the power bi community as its a better fit there

     

    Power BI forums - Microsoft Fabric Community

    Thanks

  • Graemess Profile Picture
    10 on at

    Hi @mmbr1606,
    Thank you for the advice, I have removed references to Power BI and will post another version referring only to Power BI on the Power BI forum.

Under review

Thank you for your reply! To ensure a great experience for everyone, your content is awaiting approval by our Community Managers. Please check back later.

Helpful resources

Quick Links

Introducing the 2026 Season 1 community Super Users

Congratulations to our 2026 Super Users!

Kudos to our 2025 Community Spotlight Honorees

Congratulations to our 2025 community superstars!

Congratulations to the April Top 10 Community Leaders!

These are the community rock stars!

Leaderboard > Power Apps

#1
Vish WR Profile Picture

Vish WR 839

#2
Valantis Profile Picture

Valantis 533

#3
Haque Profile Picture

Haque 412

Last 30 days Overall leaderboard