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Hello,


I hope I can explain this so as to get an answer.
I have a document library called "General", which is a sub folder in my "Documents" folder.

Once a month Service Now dumps an excel file with the month and year appended as shown below.

 

What I need to do is dynamically find the first part of the URL where my Excel files reside.  

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I can get the URL by populating a variable with "strLinkToItem" but this includes the file name as well.
The file name changes so I need to get that dynamically as well in order to use Get Worksheets action.

In order to get this to work I had to hardcode the library path and then use a variable that holds the file name in order to use get worksheets action.

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"/General/EmailMessages_6_2023" is hard coded and I need that to be dynamic.
The latest folder that was created (Because it is now July) is...
Notice the folder under General has changed.

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Please give me some direction if possible.

 

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    trice602 Profile Picture
    15,329 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at
    Re: Get Latest Created Folder

    Hi @Anonymous ,

     

    I ended up using this solution, let me know if this helps!  Here I grab the current date/time and then pull the month number and year number out using compose, and concat that with General/EmailMessages_ .  In my test, I was able to dynamically create that hard coded folder path using the current date.  Always glad to help!  Tom

     

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    Re: Get Latest Created Folder

    Hi Tom,
    Thanks for your input! This looks like it could do the trick.
    I will apply this today and let you know.
    Thank you!

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    trice602 Profile Picture
    15,329 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at
    Re: Get Latest Created Folder

    Thanks Chris!  If this ends up working for you, please mark as a solution so I can earn my 1st solution badge 😁 Tom

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