Forum Discussion

Former Employee

Jul 31, 2020

How to get an attachment provided via FORM added to Sharepoint List

I've created a FORM that has a number of questions, including the option for a user to add an attachment. Then via FLOW all answers to the questions are getting added to a Sharepoint List. Everythi...

Forms Responses

microsoft forms

JaHy

Copper Contributor

Mar 12, 2025

This is an old thread already, but giving it a shot...

I've managed to get the attachment to Lists (similar steps ... Create item - Parse JSON - Get file content using path - Add attachment) but what happens is the file name is appended with my user name. I don't want that, how to keep the attachment file name just as it was when uploaded via Forms?

MargaretM

Tin Contributor

Jul 03, 2026

You can use an expression in the flow to handle this. The name is appended with underscores, so you will need to find the first two and remove them:

join(skip(split({File_name}'_'), 2), '_')

Use this new name when adding attachment or creating a file in a library:

If you are collecting files from external users, you can also consider Plumsail Forms. It features native integration with SharePoint, allowing you to save public responses along with their attachments directly to your selected SharePoint list.

Best Regards,

Margo

Plumsail team