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Manually trigger a flow to trigger another flow

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Im trying to achive the following. I need a flow that will be available to multiple document librarys in sharepoint. So i have a column in does those librarys that i call button, this contains a button that starts a flow.

Now what i want to do in the end is to run a flow that checks if the file is a specific content type publish it to this locations. Now this is fine if create the flow for each list i want it to run in.

My Button flow in the list triggers a flow that looks like this.

Manually trigger a flow.

Http send request

The Http send request should send to the new flow that is trigged by a When a HTTP request is recived.

Now i dont know how to get the data i need to make the rest of the flow work. I would need the first flow to send the Http request containing the file, fileid, location of the file and all the fields in the sharepoint list. This way i can re-use them in the flow 2.

But how can i get the data i need to make flow 2 work and trigger in the right file in the right location.

Im new to json so i dont really know how to extract the things i need. I would need Location of the list and the fileid i can then use this in a get item and get more data.

https://veenstra.me.uk/2019/04/29/microsoft-flow-deploying-flows-to-all-your-project-sites-or-maybe-not/

Appriciate all help i can get

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yashag2255 24,769 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Hey @JimmyWork

You can refer to the following article to pass data for HTTP request type flows:

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Flow-Community-Blog/Microsoft-Flow-as-a-Service/ba-p/378114

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JimmyW 2,563 on at

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@yashag2255 Thank you for answering.

What i cant figure out is how i can get the location or item id if i use Manually trigger a flow.

1. First flow is in a SharePoint list as a button, i use this as a template. This means when i creat a new document library from this template it will have the button in the list and it can call the flow i entered. But i need to get the location of the list and the item id to pass this on to Flow 2.

2. Flow 2 should get the location and item id so i can use triggers that require me to enter a library name and so on.

For example i want flow 2 to start with a Get item, this requires me to have the SIte Address, List Name and File ID. But i dont know how to get this to Flow 2 from Flow 1 using a manually trigger a flow.

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JimmyW 2,563 on at

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This is now solved thanks to: https://veenstra.me.uk/2019/04/29/microsoft-flow-deploying-flows-to-all-your-project-sites-or-maybe-not/

I can now have one flow that is triggerd from multiple librarys/list and get the siteaddress and fileid dynamicly before the second flow runs.

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