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Let us save an email as PDF document when using outlook.com or 365.
For example I would like to set up a flow that lets me archive all emails that come are put into a certain folder as PDFs to my OneDrive. From what I see this does not seem to be possible as of right now.
@ayomalireid wrote:Ok, so just to be clear, there's currently no way to do this via the built in actions? Like other said, i can get the eml > pdf conversion, but it doesn't export the images with it.
Yes, unfortunately, that's how it is.
Ok, so just to be clear, there's currently no way to do this via the built in actions? Like other said, i can get the eml > pdf conversion, but it doesn't export the images with it.
I tested today, and as @elizabds said already, the Email->*.eml->*.pdf workflow is working again. Still same problems as before, no images as example, but I do not get an error anymore when the "Convert file" input is named with extension *.eml.
Perhaps it's related to email content, i don't know. Or MS has fixed the isssue I postetd 3 posts before.
Anyway, seems to work fine again. Thanks!
Hello @elizabds
I hope you don't mind me asking a quick question. As in the accepted solution, you did a "Create File" of the incoming email-body to a *.eml-file. And from this "Create File" you placed the ID (result) into the "Convert File" as input?
This had not worked for me in the last weeks anymore, because "Convert File" threw an Error ("Conversion of this file to PDF is not supported") with a *.eml file. If this now works again, I will try to change it again next week. Just want to be sure it's the same solution.
Thanks a lot!
This accepted solution works for me and the explanation about the final deletion step was helpful too. I changed 'Received time' to 'subject' since it works better for our team. I've been troubleshooting and LOOKING for this solution for a while. Great forum. Thank you!!
Built-in solution to convert Emails to PDF stops working because "Convert file", which is used to convert to PDF, is not accepting "*.eml" anymore. It delivers an error message.
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"status": 406,
"message": "Conversion of this file to PDF is not supported. (Sandbox_BadArgument_ArgumentNull / An exception occurred while executing within the Sandbox)",
"source": "api.connectorp.svc.ms"
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I tried to simply change the exported email from *.eml to *.html, but with *.html the conversion of email with "Convert file" is not working well. It does not identify the email header and display it correctly anymore.
Is there any currently working solution to export incoming emails to PDF with built-in Power Automate nodes?
@v-xida-msft: I see you are "Community Support" and posted the solution ( https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Building-Flows/save-email-as-pdf/m-p/109222/highlight/true#M10717 )
Would be very nice if you could communicate with MS that your posted solution is working again. As I described, "Convert file" is not able to convert EML to PDF anymore. Thank you!
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