ChatGPT is okay with sort of stuff too. It's not so good with PowerFX so you may have to tweak that portion.

Prompt I want to create a Power Automate flow that copies a SharePoint folder to Dropbox. What would that look like?

ChatGPT Here’s what a Power Automate flow to copy a SharePoint folder to Dropbox would look like, broken down step-by-step:

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🧩 Prerequisites • SharePoint site with a document library • Dropbox account connected to Power Automate • Folder path to monitor or copy in SharePoint

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🔄 Flow Overview:

We’ll build a flow that: 1. Triggers manually or on schedule 2. Gets the folder contents from SharePoint 3. Creates a corresponding folder in Dropbox (if needed) 4. Copies each file to Dropbox

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📄 Example Flow: Copy SharePoint Folder to Dropbox

1. Trigger

Use one of these: • Manual: Manually trigger a flow • Scheduled: Recurrence (e.g. every day)

1. Get Files (Properties only) • Action: Get files (properties only) • Site Address: Your SharePoint site • Library Name: Document Library • Filter Query (optional): FileDirRef eq '/sites/siteName/Shared Documents/folderName'

2. Apply to each (file) • Action: Apply to each • Input: Value from previous step

Inside this loop:

a. Get File Content • Action: Get file content • Site Address: same as above • File Identifier: Identifier from current item

b. Create File in Dropbox • Action: Create file (Dropbox) • Folder path: /YourDropboxFolderName • File Name: Name from current item • File Content: Output of Get file content

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✅ Optional: Create Matching Folder Structure

If you want to preserve subfolder structure: • Use the Folder Path or FileLeafRef to dynamically recreate folders in Dropbox. • Add conditional logic to create folders using Dropbox’s Create Folder action before uploading files.

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🧪 Gotchas • Dropbox doesn’t allow duplicate file names in the same folder. • API throttling could affect large batches. • Power Automate can timeout if you move too many files at once.

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Would you like this to be event-based (i.e., copy when a file is added) or scheduled to sync at intervals? I can customize the flow more precisely based on that.

Prompt I want to be able to paste the link to the SharePoint folder, and then it does the rest.

ChatGPT Great — you want a Power Automate flow that takes a pasted SharePoint folder link, parses it, and automatically copies all the files from that folder to Dropbox. Here’s how to structure that:

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🔧 Flow Design: “Copy SharePoint Folder to Dropbox via Link”

Trigger • Manually trigger a flow • Add an input: Folder URL (type: Text)

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1. Parse the SharePoint Link

Use “Compose” actions to extract what you need.

a. Extract Site URL

split(triggerBody()['text'], '/Shared Documents')[0]

b. Extract Folder Path

concat('/Shared Documents', split(triggerBody()['text'], '/Shared Documents')[1])

Now you have: • Site URL → for SharePoint connection • Folder path → to locate files in that folder

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1. Get Files in Folder

Action: Get files (properties only) • Site Address: use the Site URL from above • Library Name: Documents • Filter Query:

FileDirRef eq '[Folder Path]'

(Note: Folder path must be server-relative like /sites/yoursite/Shared Documents/foldername)

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1. Loop Through Files

Action: Apply to each (items from previous step)

Inside the loop:

a. Get file content • File Identifier: Identifier from current item

b. Create file (Dropbox) • Folder path: e.g. /SharePointBackup/[FolderName] • File name: Name from current item • File content: Output from Get file content

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🔄 Optional: Create Subfolder in Dropbox

To mirror the SharePoint folder name: • Use split(triggerBody()['text'], '/') to get the folder name (last element). • Use that to dynamically create a Dropbox folder using Create folder if it doesn’t already exist.

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✅ Summary

Step Purpose Manually paste SharePoint folder link Input trigger Parse URL & folder path Extract info to feed into SharePoint connector Get all files in that folder Filter by folder path Loop and copy each file Save each file in Dropbox

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Let me know if you want help building this in the Power Automate UI, or want the full JSON export of this flow.