Allow to check in, check out and publish files in a SharePoint library

[sebasacevedo]

Add actions to check in, check out and publish files in a Sharepoint Library

[hvandekamp]

We are looking forward to support for publishing SharePoint items, e.g. for publishing SharePoint Modern Site Pages using Microsoft Flow. Can you provide a timeframe when we can expect support for this?

[anton-khrit]

Hi,

You can easily check in or check out SharePoint documents in Microsoft Flow with the help of Plumsail Actions.

It is a third-party product that provides Plumsail SP connector that provides a set of actions for SharePoint management, including check-in, check-out, copy, move, remove.

Please review this article describing how to do this.

[SylvieLet17]

That blog post doesn't actually address the "check out" functionality mentioned in the idea above. 

Or am I missing something?

[anton-khrit]

Hi @SylvieLet17,

The idea is about "check-in" and "check-out". This blog post shows how to use "check-in". There is also check out action available. You can use it the same way as it shows for check-in.

[pworthington]

Any update on timeline? We've got a few clients chomping at the bit for publishing in Flow so they can stop using legacy workflows!

[stazera]

yes, an OOTB functionality using MS FLOW to check out and check in the files would be awesome. 

@Anonymousplease provide this as soon as possible. 

[BPanigrahi]

When are we getting this?

[preethirasu]

any updates on this ?

[makp]

You can check in and out with flow.

Simple way use "Send HTTP Request to SharePoint" and use REST Api.

In my flow a file can be published to 3 different tenants, so in folder i have column to show where file/s is published, so if a file is published to one tenant and i want to publish it to another, i mark it for publishing, then i check in.

When Flow runs it will publish to the one where its not published, and then update the metadata so you can see it has been published, that part i needed Check out update Check in.

_api/web/getFileByServerRelativeUrl('/CO/Source/File name with extension ')/checkout()

_api/web/getFileByServerRelativeUrl('/CO/Source/File name with extension ')/checkin()

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/sp-add-ins/working-with-folders-and-files-with-rest

If you dont want to use alot of Flows on testing, install Postman extensions Through Chrome and there you can test the REST before using them in Flow. 

[BlueCar]

Thank you very much, @makp. Your method worked like a charm.