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Copper Contributor

Feb 07, 2019

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Inspecting SharePoint News Metadata in Flow

I have been unable to find a way to inspect News article page metadata via a Flow action. From looking at all the content through SharePoint, it would seem that a news article is essentially just a r...

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ChrisWebbTech
Feb 08, 2019
So You do a trigger, whatever that is, Then get file properties pointing to same Site pages library. Then in any action after as shown in e-mail one I can reference it. I could use it in the Condition action as well by adding in Promoted State is equal to 2 etc.

Tortilla

Copper Contributor

Feb 08, 2019

Thanks I appreciate that. As for the alert being easier, yes, it would be, but it’s not scalable. I’m essentially doing some exploratory work right now to see how we could leverage flow within some our business processes. Sending an email is just one example use case here, but as I learn more I have grand designs to do more — but it’s all based on being able to access the metadata associated with a news post in a SitePages library.

ChrisWebbTech

MVP

Feb 08, 2019

So You do a trigger, whatever that is, Then get file properties pointing to same Site pages library. Then in any action after as shown in e-mail one I can reference it. I could use it in the Condition action as well by adding in Promoted State is equal to 2 etc.

Tortilla
Copper Contributor
Feb 11, 2019
Perfect thanks! Turns out it was the trigger which was causing issues. I was using "When a file is created in a folder" and not "When an item is created."

Interesting though, because the version I used still triggered correctly, it just didn't pull in the metadata for which I was looking. Thanks for the help, you solved it! :)