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Select File from Get Files (Properties Only)

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Posted on by chrisvolpe

Hello, very new with Power Automate and this is only my second flow.  

 

I create, through another flow, a new file each business day, Monday - Friday, that starts with MM-dd-yyyy in sharepoint Shared Documents/General folder.

This means that business yesterday file is also out there and I want to find it and move it the Archive folder under the General folder.

 

I have three variables:

1 - DayofWeek - dayOfWeek(utcNow())

2 - NotMonday - formatDateTime(addDays(utcNow(), -1),'MM-dd-yyyy')

3 - IsMonday - formatDateTime(addDays(utcNow(), -3),'MM-dd-yyyy')

 

My condition looks at the dayOfWeek variable is equal to '1' which would be Monday

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If this is true I branch and set the variable NotMonday

 

then Get Files (Properties Only)

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Then I have a Move File taking the Name from the get Get Files (properties only)

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I get 'BDRequest' on the Get File step.  Any idea, thanks so much!!!

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    Re: Select File from Get Files (Properties Only)

    Hi , @chrisvolpe 

    If you want to filter the filename with startwith() function in Get files action in Power Automate , you need to use code :

    startswith(FileLeafRef,'Data')

    You can replace the 'Data' to your IsMonday to check if it can run scuessfully.

    For more information, you can refer to :
    Solved: startswith(FileLeafRef,'XXX') finds nothing - Power Platform Community (microsoft.com)

     

    Best Regards,

    Yueyun Zhang

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