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I need to convert a onedrive flow to a sharepoint flow

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I have a flow that downloads a pdf from a website link on to a SharePoint file library folder. My intentions are to rename the file with the existing file name plus date extracted from pdf document. I have another flow that i tested with OneDrive and it works perfectly. How can i convert that flow if possible or create a similar one to use with SharePoint.

 

Below is the OneDrive flow i used:

 

 

 

 

 

  • oguerra1 Profile Picture
    oguerra1 34 on at
    Re: I need to convert a onedrive flow to a sharepoint flow

    @SamLed ,

    This is very helpful. I did not think about the move option. I new that OneDrive Teams, and Outlook use sharepoint. But I am new to flows. Anyways, i had found a different way to do what i wanted. I downloaded the files directly to a onedrive folder instead of sharepoint. And did my filename update there them saved it to the final sharepoint location. But like i said this could could clean up the flow.

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    SamLed Profile Picture
    SamLed 2,326 on at
    Re: I need to convert a onedrive flow to a sharepoint flow

    Hi @oguerra1,

     

    Behind the scenes, SharePoint in Microsoft 365 provides the content services for all files in Microsoft 365. So OneDrive, Teams, Yammer, Outlook, etc... all use SharePoint.

     

    By the way, SharePoint connector offers equivalent actions and triggers as the OneDrive one, except some like conversion or tag managment actions. The main difference is that for SharePoint actions you have to specify the destination site while for OneDrive this is not necessary, target OneDrive (Sharepoint site behind the scene) is linked to the connection. 

     

    Ex:

    OneDrive "Move file":

    SamLed_0-1709416666816.png

     

    SharePoint "Move file"

    SamLed_1-1709416762993.png

    Here you need to specify the source site and destination site, it can be the same. Sharepoint also offers more options if a file of the same name already exists in the destination.

     

    See below table where I tried to make a match between both connectors' actions:

     

    OneDrive

    SharePoint

    Add file tag

    N/A

    Convert file (Preview)

    N/A

    Convert file using path (Preview)

    N/A

    Copy file

    Copy file

    Copy file using path

    Copy file

    Create file

    Create file

    Create share link

    Create sharing link for a file or folder

    Create share link by path

    Create sharing link for a file or folder

    Delete file

    Delete file

    Extract archive to folder

    Extract folder

    Find files in folder

    Get files (properties only)

    Find files in folder by path

    Get files (properties only)

    Get file content

    Get file content

    Get file content using path

    Get file content using path

    Get file metadata

    Get file metadata

    Get file metadata using path

    Get file metadata using path

    Get file tags

    N/A

    Get file thumbnail

    N/A

    List files in folder

    Get files (properties only)

    List files in root folder

    Get files (properties only)

    Move or rename a file

    Move file

    Move or rename a file using path

    Move file

    Remove file tag

    N/A

    Update file

    Update file

    Upload file from URL

    N/A

     

    Hope this will help, you can also post your flow design, so I can tell you exactly what to do.

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  • lbendlin Profile Picture
    lbendlin 7,597 on at
    Re: I need to convert a onedrive flow to a sharepoint flow

    SharePoint is nothing more than a OneDrive with a database and a couple webpages bolted on.  What are you aiming to gain from the move?

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