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Edit: I found a solution - straight forward actually. From within the model-driven app, we added a location and specified the display name and folder name. Documents already in our repository were simply moved to the new folder and everything is working just fine.

I have a model driven app through which users can upload documents to SharePoint.

The folder in SharePoint is automatically created with the PK from my Client's table, along with other characters added.

Most of the users access and upload documents through the app, but some are working directly in the SharePoint folders due to the nature of their work.

It is difficult as the folder names are really non-descriptive.

If I go to my Client Table and look at the relationships, I can see two other tables:

client_SharePointDocumentLocations and

client_SharePointDocuments

I assume the folder name will be in those tables, but I cannot access them.

Is there any way in which I can change the folder names on SharePoint to make it more user friendly? I know I can add a column on SharePoint to have something more descriptive, but the users sync the SharePoint folder to their Onedrive, so that won't solve the problem.

Any ideas on how to solve this problem?

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Jonathan Manrique 2,695 on at

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Hi

As you mentioned, the relative URL is created automatically and you cannot modify that name.
You can go into the configuration and check the relative name and it seems that it allows you to modify it, but even when I changed it, the name within Sharepoint was not changed.
So what you could do is create a flow that when a new folder is created in that library, the name is changed to a structure that you like.

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Hi Jonatha

I actually thought about a flow that could change the folder name or changing the folder name manually after it has been created. I tested it; if I change the folder name the model driven app gives an error that the folder could not be found.

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Hilda Steyn 289 on at

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Hi Jonathan - see the edit above in my original post. Problem solved.

Sometimes we overthink things!

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