count no of files in a particular SharePoint folder and update in dynamics

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Posted on by vaishali_37

Hi All,

I am creating flow with below fucntionality.

1. Whenever record is created in MS CRM create some folder structure in SharePoint.

2. Count no of files in each folder and update that number in MS CRM.

Example: On Create of Account create "Contact" and "Related Document" folders in SharePoint and count files in each folder and update in "Contact count" and "Realted Document Count" fields in Dynamics respectivly.

I completed point 1 succesuuflly but I am not able to count no of files in each folder in SharePoint.

How can we add filter query on "Get item" to retrieve and count no of files in that particular folder

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Willemijn 214 on at

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Hi,

If you only want to count the files in the specific folder you can maybe use the action 'Send an HTTP request to SharePoint':

As Uri: /_api/web/getfolderbyserverrelativeurl('/sites/testflow/LibraryTitle/foldername')/ItemCount
As a result you get the items in this specific folder.

Hope this helps! Otherwise let me know 🙂
Willemijn

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adriaanvw 15 on at

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Hi @Willemijn

Thanks for the solution, which works well. Any idea how to assign the ItemCount to an integer variable? I'm trying to work with the output of the GET request, which looks like this:
{ "d": { "ItemCount": 5 } }

Struggling to extract the number and use it as a variable though. Any suggestions? Thanks

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Willemijn 214 on at

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Hi!

You could use the Parse Json action for that, use the body of your request as value, and use sample load to generate the schema.
After that action you can use 'Itemcount' as a dynamic value.

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adriaanvw 15 on at

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Thanks @Willemijn ,

That did the trick, and now I know what Parse JSON does 👍

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