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johnjohn-Peter
Feb 26, 2025Iron Contributor
Best approach to follow to apply naming convention for our files inside sharepoint
if we want to apply a naming convention for our existing and new files inside SharePoint sites. for example inside the compliance site to have this naming convention: - complinace-CreatedDate while...
Rob_Elliott
Feb 26, 2025Silver Contributor
You can do this with a flow in Power Automate with the when a file is created trigger, then add an update file action to change the name to what you posted above.
If you are applying it to files already uploaded you'd need to have a manual trigger then use the get files action and add an apply to each and rename the files. But that might be quite slow depending on the number of files involved.
Rob
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