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How to move a file created by a form submission from within sharepoint?

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My flow is triggered by a form submission, and it involves multiple possible attachments. Currently, I take the attachments from the "Get response details" action, and am provided with this:

{
 "body": [
 {
 "name": "filename.png",
 "link": "https://example.sharepoint.com/sites/directory.png",
 "id": "01MZTSHJDMECTWOGD7C5A32K4NH6TCK53L",
 "type": null,
 "size": 56135,
 "referenceId": "01MZTSHJGSGR3BG2RMZRHY4UG44WC7YGZG",
 "driveId": "b!lpFf3dPwhU6zJNTbpGM6BartDUSBGbFOmvIgFbItjKXPcTH9pHmiSbvaCVVjlkuN",
 "status": 1,
 "uploadSessionUrl": null
 }
 ]
}

Since there are multiple questions, I parse them all into one array to iterate over using an Apply to each loop. My goal then, is to do these things:

Move the file from the form submission folder to a destination folder
Grab the link to the file in its new location, so that I can add it to a project board and have it directly connect

I'm struggling to do this, because it seems that the "move file" action requires a file identifier, and that identifier is not one of the things returned by the "Get response details" action. Here is my flow currently:

How can I move the file and get its new link from the properties available, as shown above?

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Nived_Nambiar 18,129 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi @awaples

The files uploaded to form are seemed to be stored in onedrive , so to move to sharepoint , use get file content to get file content of file from onedrive and then create file using that file content in sharepoint.

i used delete file at last so to simulate like move operation. As move = create file at destination + delete file at source

Hope it helps !

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They are not stored in onedrive, the form is a group form and they are stored in the sharepoint. Hopefully that would make it easier I'd imagine? Regardless, this method wont work due to that.

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Nived_Nambiar 18,129 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi @awaples

Have you confirmed that by checking the file link in response object ?

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-forms/tutorial-where-are-ms-form-attachments-stored-explained/m-p/3950572

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Unless I am misunderstanding something, the link in the response object is a sharepoint link, not a onedrive link, and to access the form responses, I have to go to the Forms folder in my companies sharepoint, NOT my onedrive. My onedrive doesn't even have a forms folder. This makes sense since the form being used is owned by the company, not me.

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@awaples You might find my latest YT Tutorial helpful: How to Get Microsoft Form File Uploads Attached to an Email 📧

Although this tutorial specifically covers how to get the File Uploads from a Group Form (where the files are saved in SharePoint and not OneDrive) attached to an email—you should be able to use the same logic to move your files to a different folder.

✅ Two types of MS Forms

✅ Where Microsoft Personal (OneDrive) Form File Uploads are Saved

✅ Where Microsoft Group Form File Uploads are Saved

✅ How to Add a File Upload Question to an MS Form

✅ How to get a Microsoft Form ID

✅ How to get a Microsoft Form Response

✅ How to Get the Dynamic Content Microsoft Form File Upload Content

✅ How to handle Single and Multiple Microsoft Form File Uploads

✅ How to use a Scope action to Organize and Group Your Flow Actions

✅ How to Get the File Content from an MS Form File Upload

✅ How to Collect All Files Uploaded to a MS Form and Attach to an Email

✅ How to Handle MS Form Response When a File Isn’t Uploaded

✅ How to Create an Email Key

✅ How to Send an Email to a Specific Recipient Based on Form Selection

✅ How to Create a Dynamic Output Based on Form Selection

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So, I ended up figuring out 2 different things that I'll put here for others to reference.
My solution was to simply just use the File path in the "File To Move" box for the SharePoint "Move File" action. Since I know the name of the question in the form, I know the name of the folder the file is stored under when a form response is submitted, so by using the name of the question and the name of the file submitted, I can directly access the file to move it. Here is my flow for this setup, the apply to each loops are for if there are multiple files submitted, and the "Parse attachments JSON" action combines all of the attached files into 1 single JSON to iterate over so I can move them all.
If you want to get the "ItemID" value of a file using its path, simply use the SharePoint "Get file metadata using path" action, which I was previously unaware existed. This will directly return the files "ItemID" value, something that is used in a lot of other actions.

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