Triggering a flow when a file is pushed into a folder

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Hi all,

I want to trigger a flow when a file is inserted into a folder. How can i do this?

Thank you,
Amitha Thimmaiah

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Check out “file change trigger”, possibly trigger by “created” parameter in your case.

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Hi @Amitha,

Find the attached Xaml.

File Change.xaml (7.3 KB)

Regards,
Rahul

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Thank you @vvaidya and @Rahul :slight_smile:

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If i use the file change trigger on a process, will it consume a robot/license in orchestrator while running?

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Yes, it will. Robot has to be started to monitor folder so it obviously needs to consume a license.
You can bypass this by having something else monitor the folder and if file appears trigger bot. Or you can create a bot that would periodically check the folder, let’s say once per hour. In between these checks the same bot can run some other process.
See example scripts to monitor folder: windows - How to monitor a folder and trigger a command-line action when a file is created or edited? - Super User