Receive notification on folder name change

[synergy15]

New to Power Automate.  Wanting to create a flow so that will receive a notification when a Folder Name is changed.  Have tried setting up a flow, but have only been successful in getting notifications for any change in both the Folder Name and any changes in the underlying Files.

I only want to get an Alert, with appropriate message showing the old Folder name and preferably the new name for the Folder, for a Folder name change (the Folder names are changed rarely, whilst Files are being changed all the time).

Is this possible?

[v-mengmli-msft]

Hi @synergy15 ,

Please try this:
1.Add a column which saves original names of files:

2.Set a condition to determine whether the value of the name and the original name are equal, equal means that the name has not been modified, then next actions are not triggered, if condition returns true, next actions are triggered, and the original name is changed to the modified file name to prevent the flow from falling into a loop.

Best regards,

Rimmon

[synergy15]

Rimmon

Thanks for the reply.  As noted, am new to Power Automate (and Sharepoint).

Can see how to add a new column in Sharepoint, but how do I get the File Name into the new Column?

Also, will this work with a Folder name as well as a File name (is the Folder that renaming, not the individual files within the Folder).

Jud

[v-mengmli-msft]

Hi @synergy15 ,

1.Add column in SP library:

2.Get the file name into new column:
If you don't have a large number of files, try entering them manually, otherwise you'll need to create a manual flow to add all the file names to the new column.

Manual flow steps:

1)instant trigger

2)Get files action

3)Apply to each --->Update file properties

3.If you modify the folder name, it will also trigger the flow because folders are also files.

Best regards,

Rimmon