MS Flows - Copy SharePoint file - Special Characters not working correctly

[scotth82]

Hi,

I have a flow which after several actions copies a file from a template and renames it for the current week.

Something appears to be going wrong when renaming the file as it's not allowing me to use "&" in the file name but if I rename the file manually it allows me to use "&".

Please can you help?

Thanks

Scott

[v-yamao-msft]

Hi @scotth82,

According to your description, I created a simple flow with the action Copy file to test this issue.

When configuring the flow, I added the character & between the file name and the current date. Please check the following screenshot.

When the flow was triggered, it ran succeed. However, I found that the character & was replaced with _ in the library.

You said that it was going wrong, what’s the error message? Please take it for a reference and try again on your side.

Best regards,

Mabel Mao

[scotth82]

Hi Mabel,

That's the problem.

I'm trying to understand why "&" gets replaced with "_".

Thanks

Scott