Get Connected Folder

introduction the "get connected folder" flow action can retrieve folder type attachments for a salesforce record, for example the account parent folder details if multiple folders are attached, it retrieves the first folder's details to handle scenarios with multiple folders, we use a different approach for more details, please refer create automated folder hierarchies for managing external files from salesforce objects docid\ ynzb pjpdnjkkttmq1p t the image below illustrates what this action looks like, including its various input and output parameters detailed descriptions of these parameters are provided in the following section the get connected folder action requires the following parameters parent id this is the id of the salesforce record for which you want to retrieve the attachment this action gives various parameters of the newly obtained resource’s destination parameters resource id folder id of the newly retrieved resource resource name name of the newly retrieved resource other parameters parameters specifying the location of created resource in this article we will first dive into the details of the input & output parameters and then discuss how this action can be used in different scenarios what this action does this action retrieves the details of a folder attached to a salesforce record if multiple folders are attached, only the first attached folder will be considered input parameters this flow action takes only 1 parameter, which is the "parent id" parent id the parent id is the id of the salesforce record for which you want to retrieve the attachment this can be obtained from the flow's "record" variable in record triggered flows or from the flow's “triggering cldfs cloudfiles event e” record in platform event triggered flows in the parent id field, select ' salesforcefiles ' > ' parentid ' for example, in the parent id field, select ' outputs from cloudfiles get event details (get uploaded files details) ' > ' salesforce files details ' > ' parentid ' refer to the image shown below output parameters the apex action returns the following details of the connected folder you can choose to save them somewhere if you wish to use it later resource id this is the id of the newly created folder this is used as parent folder id for subsequent sub folders this id is crucial for specifying the exact location within the storage service hierarchy where the folder should be placed drive id this is the drive id of the drive where the folder got created this id remains constant for sub folders it specifies the exact location within the storage service where the folder should be placed library this is the cloud storage in which the folder got created one can use any external storage for example google , sharepoint etc resource name this is the name of the newly created folder used to identify the folder within storage service resource path this is the cloud storage path of the newly created folder it specifies the particular endpoint and resource you want to interact with, such as records, objects, or custom resources type this is the type of the resource it will always be 'folder' used for classifying the resource type in create attachment