The Request Files feature in SharePoint and OneDrive is a really useful addition to Microsoft 365, but there are lots of use cases where being able to automate the process of assigning folders for file requests would be beneficial.

In this video I take a look at an approach to do this, by using Power Automate and the SharePoint API (the Graph API has similar but more limited functionality), and then run through a basic example of how to use these tools to match up with a suggest business process.

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Links:
Request file in SharePoint (from SharePoint Wizard)    • Request file  in SharePoint  

Chapters:
0:01 Introduction
1:33 How to create a Request Files folder
2:25 How do you do it Power Automate?
2:55 Take a look at the HTTP request
4:21 Create a Request Files folder with Power Automate
6:52 What's the business use case?
7:49 Example business process in Power Automate

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