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Forum Discussion
Automation of subfolders to keep the same pattern as the parent.
Is there a way to enable all new subfolders to automatically have the same automation as the parent folder, or even the grandparent folder? As far as I can see there isn't one.
An automation to convert any file in a folder to a pdf is not applied automatically to any subfolder. This should be possible in order to facilitate the process. Currently we have to do this manually.
- Walter
Dropbox Staff
Hey there jeromemuller, thanks for posting on our Community and happy Monday!
This should actually be possible now as I just gave it a go and it worked fine for files I uploaded to the sub-folder of the automated parent folder.
Can you give it a go again and let me know how it goes? Just click the folder where you’d like to add your automation> Click Add automation> then Convert Files to PDF. Note that you can personalize from there, and include files in all sub-folders as well.
I hope this helps and please keep us posted, Jerome.
Hi Walter!
Thank you for your feedback!
Unfortunately, it keeps not working! See the image below. The file 'Test file - comment expense' in the parent folder 'SecuChatExpensePlugin' has a converted PDF version. The same file is put into a sub-folder 'jerome.muller' and does not convert into a pdf version, nor does it happen to the file shared in our chat solution and automatically synced in the sub-sub-folder 'Expense Plugin Demo'.How did you configure it? When I try to do it at the configuration, there is no option to apply the same to sub-folders...
Thank you!
Jerome
