Flow Action - Convert Word Document to PDF

VFXPro
Brass Contributor
Nov 12, 2019
I just tried to use filename with extension and still doesn't work. This conversion is useless without a dynamic path.. and why can't it use the identifier or SharePoint ID? **bleep**, this is frustrating for such a simple process that is needed countless times in the legal community.
- sips1
  Copper Contributor
  Nov 27, 2019
  VFXPro I used the dynamic field "Name" in the File field and it worked.
  
  I create a new file based upon another i.e. a template then use the Convert Word Document to PDF specifying the dynamic field "Name" of the new file to convert.
  
  The file being converted uses quick parts and SharePoint metadata so the contents are dynamic.
  
  Thanks,
  
  sips1
  - katarzynaMoraczewska
    Copper Contributor
    Jan 29, 2021
    sips1
    Unfortunatelly your solution is not working for me, though I think I use same case - filed template, created docx file and trying to convert
- RodolfoMCP
  Copper Contributor
  Nov 24, 2019
  VFXPro Did you find a solution? For now I'm using the "Convert file" from the OneDrive connector instead, but it would be better to have entire the Flow only on SharePoint.

Copper Contributor

Oct 11, 2019

Alexander Dorfmayr I don't understand how your solution works because it still doesn't for me at all.

When I manually select the file, the inputs look like this, and it works:

{
  "host": {
    "apiId": "subscriptions/2c8cfba1-d125-4f31-a479-50156c7ed09f/providers/Microsoft.Web/locations/westus/runtimes/unitedstates-002/apis/wordonlinebusiness",
    "connectionReferenceName": "shared_wordonlinebusiness",
    "operationId": "GetFilePDF"
  },
  "parameters": {
    "source": "groups/390f8037-515b-4689-90e7-ce04092c89ab",
    "drive": "b!BfXatsB2n0CWjbomET8FGN5HPSqMmqVJkuANIAM7Fu6ohf774SBFQafqe7vmeMzr",
    "file": "01IVUUMXH5M5L7UL5P2JGYY776MHG4KCCU"
  }
}

Note the "file": "01IVUUMXH5M5L7UL5P2JGYY776MHG4KCCU" part. Flow converts the path into that number to find the file.

But when I try to input a dynamic path (which always fails with error 400 "not found"), the input looks like this:

{
  "host": {
    "apiId": "subscriptions/2c8cfba1-d125-4f31-a479-50156c7ed09f/providers/Microsoft.Web/locations/westus/runtimes/unitedstates-002/apis/wordonlinebusiness",
    "connectionReferenceName": "shared_wordonlinebusiness",
    "operationId": "GetFilePDF"
  },
  "parameters": {
    "source": "groups/390f8037-515b-4689-90e7-ce04092c89ab",
    "drive": "b!BfXatsB2n0CWjbomET8FGN5HPSqMmqVJkuANIAM7Fu6ohf774SBFQafqe7vmeMzr",
    "file": "Shared Documents/Sarah/District Billing/CIS/2019-2020/Pre Invoices/CIS Invoice C79 19-20 IDEA PreInvoice.docx"
  }
}

See how now there's a literal path instead of a code. Flow chokes on this.

On a lark, I put in the expression '01IVUUMXH5M5L7UL5P2JGYY776MHG4KCCU' for the "File" field and, yes, it worked again.

But the problem is that this code does not correspond to any output from Sharepoint's "Get file properties" or "Update file properties". So on my end it looks like there is still no way to use "Convert Word to PDF" dynamically.

Would it help if my document was in the root directory of the library?

Davy Loose
Brass Contributor
Sep 10, 2019
Thanks Alexander! That looks like an update because you couldn't add dynamic properties before.

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