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egonhajek

Rename a File in Sharepoint

Submitted by Advocate I on ‎03-22-2018 03:50 AM

Can you please add the feature "change the name of a file" in the connector as it is posible in oneDrive

Thanks.

Status: Under Review

Hi @OzMatt - thank you for your patience as we've been triaging this request with both the SharePoint teams and the Power Automate teams. This is a feature ask for the SPO connector, it sounds like the request is asking for a new out-of-the-box action or to add a parameter like 'Update file' or 'Update file properties. This item has been added to the SharePoint team's backlog. 

 

Thank you for bringing this to our attention and we have updated the status to 'Under Review',

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Anonymous
Not applicable
‎02-01-2019 07:45 AM

I am so grossed out, how does MS dare to keep its systems so impotent and almost consciously makes it frustrating, complex and unintuitive to use... I am not asking for something complicated, renaming an online file through flow should be the easiest thing on the world, but I feel like I need a highly-paid consultant to do my job or an master degree in Sharepoint-ism to get things done.

I created this account simply to finally complain and beg for improvement, even if it is unlikely we will ever see it.

Anonymous
Not applicable
‎02-05-2019 09:44 PM

please add a rename action - it seems such a simple thing that is causing many of us a lot of main

Deb1
New Member
‎02-27-2019 09:56 AM

I so need this NOW!  I have journal articles and need a consistent nomencalture.  I want to concatonate the meta daa so we can have SharePoint rename each file after it's uploaded.  I used to be able to do this in Designer...SOOOO frustrated with Modern.  It fails me every day.

Anonymous
Not applicable
‎03-28-2019 09:27 AM

Microsoft wants to dominate the cloud apps/software as a service  model marketplace,  and then they can't have out of the box something so basic as the ability to in one step rename a sharepoint document folder  or file in their batch / workflow processing language. 

 

I've worked with tools like WORKDAY and while they  suck in their own way too, they have batch processing down cold.  I can rename a file in one step in a workday flow.   

I'm annoyed that this feature even needs an upvote to get implemented.     

 

 

Meneghino
Community Champion
Community Champion
‎04-08-2019 06:13 AM

MS please implement this asap

DawgPoundMBA1
Advocate I
Advocate I
‎09-18-2019 02:44 PM

I have figured out the answer to this:

 

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Building-Flows/Flow-SharePoint-Document-Library-File-Name-Update...

 

whats_my_name
Frequent Visitor
‎01-23-2020 12:50 PM

This does not seem like a particularly obscure need! 

 

It's crazy that we have actions for updating the metadata, but it excludes the singularly most important and common piece of metadata (filename)!

The idea that you can copy the file to a new file with a different name may work in a few scenarios, but it totally flawed in may cases, not lease because that loses all version history.

donnymacd
New Member
‎04-02-2020 02:39 AM

Very surprised to see something as basic and fundamental as this is not yet easily available

MichaelSL
Frequent Visitor
‎04-03-2020 03:26 AM

I was very surprised that this feature is not available as a standard action! Please add it.

krywar
Frequent Visitor
‎04-12-2020 08:42 PM

Please add as a standard action.