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Is it possible to create a Power Automate Flow from one click and one input, create a onedrive sync to a dir?

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Posted on 5 Apr 2024 18:37:26 by 3

Is it possible to create a Power Automate Flow to do the following:

  1. Click a button
  2. Power Automate form appears
  3. Form requests a name of a folder from the user.
  4. User enters an existing folder name in a SharePoint Online Library.
  5. OneDrive Opens if not already.
    1. If there is an existing directory for this sync on the local machine this one is used.
    2. If there is Not an existing directory for this sync on the local machine one is created.
  6. It creates a sync to this folder automatically, without further input from the user.

I was looking to see if there is a way to keep the user from having to do any of this manually and try and eliminate any potential user mistakes in the sync process.

 

If this is possible I would further investigate automating process of "freeing up space" of the sync'd directory, stopping the sync, and delete the 'local' OneDrive copy of the directory.  Again with the intent of minimal user input as possible, and remove potential user mistakes.

 

Thank you All for your Time and assistance, Peace, 

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  • Grot Profile Picture
    3 on 11 Apr 2024 at 15:12:29
    Re: Is it possible to create a Power Automate Flow from one click and one input, create a onedrive sync to a dir?

    Morning Andrew_J,

    Thanks for your response, I was curious to hear if "Power Automate" was capable of doing this.

    Peace,

  • Andrew_J Profile Picture
    1,962 Moderator on 05 Apr 2024 at 21:32:47
    Re: Is it possible to create a Power Automate Flow from one click and one input, create a onedrive sync to a dir?

    @Grot 

     

    I dont think so but if there is an issue what about creating a process sheet to tell the user how to do it with images instead of the approch you want to undertake.

     

    Andrew

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