Creating Folder And Sub Folder In SharePoint Library Using Power Automate🐎

Introduction

This article gives a brief idea about how to create folders and subfolders in the SharePoint document library using power automate.

Create folders/subfolders in the SharePoint document library using Power automate

Step 1

Go to https://flow.microsoft.com/

Click on Automated--from blank.

Step 2

Step 3

Click on next, find and select the “Initialize variables” action.

Initialize variables

Step 4

Expand the Initialize variable box and assign the variable as follows,

Step 5

Click on Next Step and find and select the “Apply to Each” action.

Step 6

Inside apply for each action box, click add action and find "Create new folder", choose variable SubFolderArray as an input of Apply each action.

Step 7

Configure Create new folder action as follows,

1. Choose site Address
2. Choose a Library name for where need to create a folder
3. Folder path represents the folder structure /ID is a root folder and /current item refers to the value from the array(for subfolders)

Step 8

Click on Save Flow.

Step 9

To test the flow, insert a record in the list that you triggered.

Step 10

Expected output,

Conclusion

That's all -- we successfully automated the folder and subfolder creation process in SharePoint document library using power automate, Cheers.