Azure File Storage Trigger for logicapp

Question

is there any Azure FileStorage trigger, i want to start a logicapp when there is any file created in File share.

Please suggest alternate ways.

Thanks,

Sarath.

Answer 1

Hello @Kola, Sarath Babu !

Welcome to Microsoft QnA!

Unfortunately ther is not a trigger for File Storage in Logic Apps

But if you look this thread :

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/333914/azure-file-system-trigger-for-azure-function-azure

There are ways to accomplish that :

1. You can use the recurrence trigger in logic app to poll and check for new files/folders https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/logic-apps/logic-apps-examples-and-scenarios#common-starting-points-for-logic-app-workflows and based on the conditional requirement you can then design your workflow.
2. You can consider a continuous webjob to poll the required REST API endpoint and check for new items. Based on the result you can proceed to the next step.
3. You may also consider the Durable function Monitor to poll until a particular condition is met.

Also there is a Trigger though for Blob Storage

With a small function you can create a program to copy something to a Blob Storage and then fire the Logic App

The link of Logic Apps Connectors

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/connectors/built-in

In your place i would created an Azure Function that executes each time a File is created , and then write some metadata in the Blob. The Logic App will fire when a Blob is modified or added !

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Regards

Answer 2

@Kola, Sarath Babu Thanks for your patience on this.

We don't have any built-in trigger either in logic Apps, Functions that can check/monitor when a new file got created in the file share.

As Konstantinos Passadis is one possible solution or alternatively, you need to create a custom solution using timer trigger, call the List Files rest API and validate the latest file based on the modified time\modified date property accordingly.

Feel free to reach back to me if you have any further questions on this.