Copy Flow Action

With the release of sFiles Spring '25, sFiles offers a flow action, "Copy SharePoint Item" that will copy a SharePoint item from one SharePoint folder to another.

Apr 24, 2025
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Copy Flow Action

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Copy-Flow-Action

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Prerequisites

sFiles Enterprise license
sFiles version 1.56 or later installed.
- Visit sFiles on the AppExchange and click "Get it Now" to update to the latest version.
You have followed sFiles setup guide to setup an object with sFiles (Brand new sFiles setup).

Steps to Configure

Add a Copy SharePoint Item action to your flow.
Set action input variables. * = Required

Input Variables

See the below table for descriptions of each parameter.

Name	Description
Destination Folder Id*	The Id of the SharePoint folder to which the item will be copied. Ex. 01BHZH573KN4BEMUE3VTESTID12345678
Object Setting Label*	The label of the SharePoint Object Setting Custom Metadata used to complete the action. To find the label of your SharePoint Object Setting, go to Salesforce Setup > Custom Metadata Types > click "Manage Records" next to SharePoint Object Settings > Use the value in the "Label" column for your SharePoint Object Setting. Ex. Account
SharePoint Id*	The SharePoint Id of the item to copy. Ex. 01XLRJ892KEMNVY7T4ZQPHALM77REZWBFA
Destination Document Library Id	(Optional) The Id of the document library to copy the item to (If the item is being copied to a different document library). Ex. b!a3D9jXp9LuUteRm9yFg7TP00BcAoF2yzLpMIUvH9WcLQFx9OmR-yzQ4_kZq6LpmXK
New Item Name	(Optional) The new name of the copied item. By default, the name of the original item is used. Ex. My Copied Item
Original Document Library Id Override	(Optional) Override the Document Library Id in the SharePoint Object Setting to the Document Library Id where the file is located. Ex. b!pQ1twkP3xb0ufTz4HvGnME01XeJoV6ddQzMHytfKDGLSRh7OjX-lbT9_wNv2ZcyPT
Original Site Id Override	(Optional) Override the Site Id set in the SharePoint Object Setting to the Site Id where the file is located. Ex. oscorp.sharepoint.com,5e3c4f21-8abc-4fd2-b197-9f57d203e7a1,bc12de34-45f7-4989-a654-88329ff4ab93

Output Variables

When the action successfully runs, it will return an Apex-Defined variable of the fileforcem1__FlowActionPayload_Boolean class. See below for explanations of the available properties on this output class:

Name	Description
Error	A string of any errors that occurred during the action.
Success	A boolean that returns true if the action succeeds and false if it does not.