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I need to move a specific files with name "Rack_SKU_##_DD_MMM_YYYY_HH_MM_SS" pick the files from a shared drive location and move to SharePoint folders. This folder has other files as well. While moving this to the destination sharepoint,

Month_Year based on current date should be picked and uploaded to sharepoint location.

Year and Month sub-folders to be created in the sharepoint if not already available
(Calculation should be based on month Present in file name minus 1)
Example:
> If Current Month is April 2022, the folder created should be 2022/Mar
> If Current Month is January 2022, the folder created should be 2021/Dec

Appreciate all your help here.

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Hi @AK007

Thanks for posting the question. I will post the solution soon.

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@abm A little tweak in the ask, it doesn't have to read the dates from file name, we can simply take current date and minus 30 days from it while creating the folder in sharepoint.

Say, the file was extracted today, 20th Apr, it needs to get copied in Mar 2022 folder on the sharepoint.

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Hi @AK007

Please have a look at my tutorial video.

https://youtu.be/J7amUp8Up4c

If you need any further help please let me know.

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Hi @abm

Thanks for your assistance here.
I will be picking up the file from shared drive and not one drive.
Also, there are other files on the shared drive, i want the flow to specifically pick "Rack_SKU_##_DD_MMM_YYYY_HH_MM_SS" files. Can you please help me further on this one?

Thanks in Advance.

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Hi @AK007

So after the trigger add an IF condition action step to check the file name contains Rack_SKU_##. Here you can't check the full filename because of different date and time.

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Hi @abm

The above solution worked, thank you very much
but i'm running into a problem while creating folder in the sharepoint.

it is throwing "Invalid Character in Create File in Sharepoint Document Library" error.

below is the error

{
"status": 400,
"message": "The file or folder name \"sites/PLASTICTAXEUROPE/Shared Documents/Plastic Tax Automation/Automation/SAP_PLM/ 2022\" contains invalid characters. Please use a different name. Common invalid characters include the following: # % * : < > ? / |\r\nclientRequestId: cee35b92-8ec3-476c-99db-984c01772f68\r\nserviceRequestId: cee35b92-8ec3-476c-99db-984c01772f68"
}

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Hi @AK007

Thanks for your reply. Check your filename. Looks like you have some invalid characters.

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@abm Thanks for the reply, I ran a test run with file name "Taxation" and it still wasn't working.

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Hi @AK007

Without seeing the data its difficult to predict what's causing this. Could you expand your run history steps and post a screenshot.

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