How To Easily Rename A SharePoint File With Power Automate

Unfortunately renaming a SharePoint file’s name with Power Automate is not directly supported by any of the SharePoint actions.

Therefore you’ll find in the web lots of tutorials, that copy the file to a new file with the new name and deleting the original file. This is a bad approach, since you are losing the file history this way. Furthermore this approach is unnecessary complex.

This guide explains how to rename a SharePoint file with one Power Automate action without creating a new file.

One Step Guide: Renaming a SharePoint file with Power Automate

Reference for Copy & Paste

Uri

Here is the Uri, please replace the #ADJUST# placeholders.

_api/web/lists/GetByTitle('#ADJUST#')/items(#ADJUST#)/validateUpdateListItem

As an example, the exact Uri used in the example.

_api/web/lists/GetByTitle('Documents')/items(@{outputs('Get_file_metadata')?['body/ItemId']})/validateUpdateListItem

Body

Here is the Body, please replace the #ADJUST# placeholders.

{
    "formValues":[
	{
	    "FieldName": "FileLeafRef",
	    "FieldValue": "#ADJUST#"
	}
    ]
}

As an example, the exact Body used in the example.

{
    "formValues":[
	{
	    "FieldName": "FileLeafRef",
	    "FieldValue": "name-@{utcNow('yyyy-MM-dd')}.txt"
	}
    ]
}