As many of you know, currently Flow has limitations with SharePoint integration that makes many common real-world scenarios difficult to achieve, including:
Basically this means it's hard to upload a file to SharePoint via flow and then set metadata on it.
Given this is such a common scenario, I came up with this workaround. This method is not ideal, but will work without a problem for many scenarios. Basically the method is:
I fully document the approach here as part of a series of posts that shows how to call an API in PowerApps and pass the data back to Flow...
Hope this helps someone, and hopefully the need for such a method is eliminated sooner rather than later...
Paul
Solved! Go to Solution.
Actually I just found a much better way to do it that has helped me go bulk photo uploads from PowerApps with tagging to SharePoint 🙂
http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/2017/07/14/the-currently-best-way-to-update-sharepoint-document-met...
The gist of it is that the web service used by the Get Items action is different to the styandard SharePoint REST endpoint and certain things don't work... The filter to apply to the list is:
FileLeafRef eq '[File name from previous flow action]'
Paul
Hi @Anonymous,
Thanks for the sharing.
For Flow related blog, you may also consider posting in the following site:
https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Flow-Community-Blog/bg-p/FlowBlog
Regards,
Michael
I'd be happy to post to that blog, but I can't see how? Am I msising something obvious?
Hi @Anonymous,
Follow the blog below:
Introducing the Microsoft Flow Community Blog
Quoted:
"
Everyone is welcome to contribute! To get started, simply message me, @JessicaC, with a rough title for your post and a couple of sentences to describe your topic, or a link if you want to excerpt a post that already exists on your own blog. Together we’ll preview how your post will look once it’s done, and set a publication date.
"
Regards,
Michael
Actually I just found a much better way to do it that has helped me go bulk photo uploads from PowerApps with tagging to SharePoint 🙂
http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/2017/07/14/the-currently-best-way-to-update-sharepoint-document-met...
The gist of it is that the web service used by the Get Items action is different to the styandard SharePoint REST endpoint and certain things don't work... The filter to apply to the list is:
FileLeafRef eq '[File name from previous flow action]'
Paul
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