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Brass Contributor

Mar 25, 2019

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Archives for old documents

I'm working on a project to move an entire filer (network shares) on to SharePoint. A question was raised, on the possibility to identify old documents (eg. documents not opened or modified in the la...

Norman Young
Mar 25, 2019
Hi Stephane KLOIS,

You could create a Flow that identifies inactive files and initiates an approval workflow and then archival action.

Some of the Flow items you will be interested in are: "Get past time", "Get files (properties only)", "Approval" and "Move file".

This might be a feasible no-code approach to archiving inactive documents but at scale I wouldn't want to maintain all of these Flows.

I hope this helps.

Norm

Norman Young

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Mar 25, 2019

Hi Stephane KLOIS,

You could create a Flow that identifies inactive files and initiates an approval workflow and then archival action.

Some of the Flow items you will be interested in are: "Get past time", "Get files (properties only)", "Approval" and "Move file".

This might be a feasible no-code approach to archiving inactive documents but at scale I wouldn't want to maintain all of these Flows.

I hope this helps.

Norm