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Drag and drop from a folder to a sharepoint

DavidAssouline
Level 4
Hello, I'm a new and enthusiastic blue prism user. I would like to automate a task that I have to perform that is extremely time consuming and that I believe a robot could do. Basically, it consists of what a human would do as a drag and drop of word documents into a sharepoint. Please note that I thought about mapping a drive with the sharepoint to copy paste the documents directly in windows but at this stage, it is not possible to access it. Therefore, I would like to use the drag and drop solution. Here is what I've already done: 1) Object creation: Open the internet explorer sharepoint webpage through the application modeler and identified the "region" to drag and drop the file 2) Object creation: "Get files" from the folder where the files are stored. This folder contains around 100 sub-folders. Each sub-folder contains 50 files. 3) Process: Insert my two objects I would like to make a loop that go through each sub-folder, select all the files and drag-and-drop them in the sharepoint. Could you please help me to do this? Best regards, David
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Denis__Dennehy
Level 15
What you are attempting to do is probably the final option to try (after mapping the drive as you have already tried, and checking out any SharePoint APIs that could be used). Dragging and dropping items is a very much a human activity task - very much mouse and vision based. It is therefore very likely to replicate that you will need to use Surface Automation. In the windows interface there is a drag and drop option available to you but you will have to use SA to provide it with reliable x and y coordinates.

DavidAssouline
Level 4
Yes it's really my last solution. I spied the region and idenfitied an area where the ""Drag"" and ""Drop"" function are available. Though, I don't know how to tell the robot to pick all the files in a folder and drag and drop them into the sharepoint. Any idea? Thhank you Denis.