Auto loading Document templates into a new folder in sharepoint

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Auto loading Document templates into a new folder in sharepoint

Cameron Francis 1

I would like to automatically put a set of word templates into new folders I create within a subfolder of my document library in SharePoint.

How would I go about doing this?

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Yanli Jiang - MSFT 31,596 Microsoft External Staff

Hi @Cameron Francis ,
According to my research and testing ,unfortunately, uploading Word template to the specified location is currently not supported. For SharePoint, Word template is managed and stored by the background unified management.

I suggest you can propose a feedback on this issue, Many features of our current products are designed and upgraded based on customers’ feedback. With requirements like this increase, the problem may well be released in the future. Thanks for your understanding.

Thanks,
Yanli Jiang

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Yanli Jiang - MSFT 31,596 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2022-08-01T07:04:51.43+00:00

Hi @Cameron Francis ,
I am looking forward to your feedback if there is any update.

Please remember to update this thread if you have any progress.

Thank you for your understanding.
Yanli Jiang - MSFT 31,596 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2022-08-05T11:07:05.567+00:00

Hi @Cameron Francis ,
I’m checking how the things are going on about this issue. Whether the answer helps you?

If there is any problem with this issue, feel free to let me know.

Answer 2

Cameron Francis 1

Hi,
Thank you for your response and sorry for my delayed response.

I will propose as feedback as suggested.

kind regards,

Answer 3

Cameron Francis 1

Just to reiterate,

This isn't a feature using the automated workflows in SharePoint currently?

regards,

Yanli Jiang - MSFT 31,596 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2022-08-08T07:04:09.713+00:00
Hi @Cameron Francis ,
Thanks for your update. I feel that I may not have clear your requirements, may I confirm some questions with you?

Do you just want to store "a set of word templates" as generic files in the SharePoint library, or do you want them to be available as templates in SharePoint as well?

Where is "a set of word templates" loaded into SharePoint?

Is this requirement only needed once or do you want to automate it periodically?

If they were general files, this operation should be possible using Power Automate, but I'll need to know the answers to points 2 and 3 to be sure later.
Here is a similar post for your reference. You can try it yourself or you can reply to me and I'll test if it works in my environment.
Thank you for your understanding and support!

Answer 4

Cameron Francis 1

Hi thanks for the help,

Answers:

For a work project, each time an incident is identified I create a new folder for that incident.
A have a set of word templates that I copy and paste into the new incident folder for reports.
This project is ongoing for the next 4 years, and I create about 10-20 incidents per months.
To save time I would like to auto populate the folder I create with the word templates on creation.
I've looked at power automate but couldn't find any obvious way to do this.

hope that clarifies the requirements,

Yanli Jiang - MSFT 31,596 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2022-08-08T11:00:24.613+00:00

Hi @Cameron Francis ,
According to your description, I tested it in my environment.
The library used for testing:

This process completes the creation of the subfolder word templates in the folder 0805, and moves the files in the library 0715 to the subfolder word templates. The process is set to be triggered manually.

The result:

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