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smalaichan's avatar
smalaichan
Copper Contributor
Feb 24, 2026

Can we fill *.pdf in File Identifier on Get file metadata

Sir,

I'm a rookie of Power Automate, so i'm tried to created flow to automatic fill metadata column in SharePoint Library as below.

So, if i have specific file identifier, the flow was running successful, but if i have fill *.pdf then the flow was running fail.

In fact, i cannot specify file identifier was uploaded in SharePoint but this flow must run automatically.

My question is how to fix on this an issue?

 

Many thanks for advice.

 

Sonchai M.

 

 

Flow Running fail

 

 

Microsoft Flow
PowerApps
sharepoint

1 Reply

  • Rob_Elliott's avatar
    Rob_Elliott
    Silver Contributor
    Mar 03, 2026

    You would never use *.pdf in that context because that would indicate you want to get all pdf files. You don't, you want to get the identifier of the file that was created in the library. So what you need to do is to select Identifier from the "when a file is created" section of the dynamic content box.

    Rob
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    Microsoft Power Automate Community Super User.
    Principal Consultant, Power Platform, WSP Global (and classic 1967 Morris Traveller driver)