How to paste screenshot into body of Send email message through Outlook

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Posted on 6 Dec 2023 21:24:54 by MikeA1

I have built a flow in PAD that takes a screenshot of a window as it runs. I know the screenshot is there because if I open a word doc I can paste it with CONTROL +V. The steps after the screenshot launch Outlook and then Send email message through Outlook .

I can't figure out how to get the captured screenshot (stored to clipboard) in the body for the email. My first thought was to capture Send Keys {CONTROL}({V}) as a variable and them put the variable in the body or save the the screenshot as the variable and apply it to the body.

Are either of those options possible?

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Agnius Bartninkas 10,045 Most Valuable Professional on 07 Dec 2023 at 07:24:49

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Re: How to paste screenshot into body of Send email message through Outlook

You cannot "paste" it into an action like that. If you want something that is stored in the clipboard to be pasted anywhere, you would need to automate the User Interface and send Ctrl+V to paste it. So, you would need to use the Outlook app UI, which is a pain to do.

Alternatively, you should save the screenshot as an actual file, instead of having it in the clipboard. Depending on how you capture the screenshot, there are several ways of doing that.

But when you have it as a file, you can then use Convert file to base64 to convert it to an encoded string. And then you can embed that into the email body like this:

<img src="data&colon;image/png;base64,{yourBase64String}" alt="SomeImage" />

Where you should replace {yourBase64String} with the base64 string.

See here for reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/desktop-flows/how-to/add-images-email-messages

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