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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 inside the Sales to have this naming convention for the file:-
Sales-ModifiedDate
and also we might have different formats for different libraries inside the same site.
So what is the best approach to follow? is there a way to do this at the office 365 level applied to lists or sites globally?
Thanks
Ok thanks, but i were asking if we can do it globally for each site or all sites? instead of having to do it on the library level by creating separate workflows..
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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