Get Folder Contents Flow Action

With the release of sFiles Spring '25, sFiles offers a flow action, "Get SharePoint Folder Contents" that will retrieve a collection of the SharePoint items in a folder.

Apr 24, 2025
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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 Get SharePoint Folder Contents action to your flow.
Set action input variables. * = Required

Input Variables

See the below table for descriptions of each parameter.

Name	Description
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 Folder Id*	The Id of the SharePoint folder from which to retrieve contents. Ex. 01XLRJ892KEMNVY7T4ZQPHALM77REZWBFA
Document Library Id Override	(Optional) The Id of the SharePoint Document Library where the folder is located. This will override the Document Library Id in the SharePoint Object Setting. Ex. b!a3D9jXp9LuUteRm9yFg7TP00BcAoF2yzLpMIUvH9WcLQFx9OmR-yzQ4_kZq6LpmXK
Next Page Link	(Only use for subsequent calls) If a folder has more than 200 items, the flow action will provide a link to access the following 200 items. Use this value for all subsequent calls to this flow action. This link will be provided in the NextPageLink* property in the output if more items are available.*
Site Id Override	(Optional) The Id of the SharePoint Site where the folder is located. This will override the Site Id in the SharePoint Object Setting. Ex. oscorp.sharepoint.com,5e3c4f21-8abc-4fd2-b197-9f57d203e7a1,bc12de34-45f7-4989-a654-88329ff4ab93

Output Variables

When the rename action successfully runs, it will return an Apex-Defined variable of the fileforcem1__FlowActionPayload class. See below for explanations of the available properties on this output class:

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Name

A string of any errors that occurred during the action.

Items

A collection of fileforcem1__SharePointItemData Apex-defined variables of the SharePoint items in the folder.

Name	Description
ByteSize	The size of the file in bytes. Ex. 76203
Format	The extension of the file. Ex. docx
Id	The SharePoint Id of the file after it has been uploaded. Ex. 01SIBYFVMOSQJWJMVZWVHLVHV2L42IUS5F
Key	The index of the file in the array of files being uploaded. Ex. 0
LastModified	Date/Time the file was uploaded. Ex. 2024-03-28T17:59:38Z
ModifiedBy	SharePoint user who uploaded the file. Ex. James Harrison
Name	The name of the file (String). Ex. My Test File.docx
NameWithoutExt	The name of the file without the extension. Ex. My Test File
OpenUrl	The URL to open the file in SharePoint.
Size	The size of the file formatted. Ex. 74.4 KB

NextPageLink

If a folder has more than 200 items, the flow action will provide a link to access the following 200 items. Use this value for all subsequent calls to this flow action.

Success

A boolean that returns true if the action succeeds and false if it does not.