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Create share link by path - link type direct substitute

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Posted on by nightfall 73

Hello, i have just found out that the "Direct" link type in the ‘Create share link by path’ action has been deprecated. 

Now my flow, that needs the download link of an OneDrive file is of course not working, as the other two link types don't return the download link.

Do you have any suggestions to give for a substitute action?

Below the affected parts of the flow:

 

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Thank you in advance and best regards,

 

Vittorio

 

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    Pstork1 68,697 Most Valuable Professional on at

    To the best of my knowledge there is no longer a way to make a link to download the file directly.  Even if you share it in OneDrive itself you will get a link that opens the file in Word Online and provides a link from there to download the file.  I think the change in behavior is because Microsoft added an option when sharing a file to Block Download.  The way they enforce that is by making the download go through Office Online.  So the change wasn't just something in Power Automate it was a change in the sharing functionality in OneDrive itself.

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    nightfall 73 on at

    Eh, i thought so, unfortunately 😞

    Gotta move to blob storage..

     

    Thank you

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