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Automated Posts to Yammer with Images

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I've spent around 6 hours looking for an answer, and I think I'm so close - I'm trying make automated posts to a specific Yammer group every Friday. The post will contain a specialized description, as well as an image.

So far, I have a 3-step flow:

Manually trigger a flow, requiring an image as well as a description
A 'Do until', which checks if today is Friday, and if not waits 5 seconds before repeating
Send an email to the specific Yammer group with the image as an attachment. I had to do this instead of automatically posting to Yammer because apparently you can't automate posts with images, but you CAN automate emails with images as attachments, and by sending it to the correct group, the same thing will happen.

Everything works smoothly, except the email attachment that is sent is in a .txt format, rather than .jpeg as it was originally uploaded. As a result, the Yammer post doesn't have an image preview, which I really need.

Why does the uploaded jpeg get attached as a .txt? Is there an elegant workaround?

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v-yuazh-msft on at

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Hi @Anonymous

If you want to post a message to Yammer with Images,

I afraid that there is no way to achieve your needs in Microsoft Flow currently.

Posting a message to Yammer with Images is not supported in microsoft flow currently,

If you would like this feature to be added in Microsoft Flow, please submit an idea to Flow Ideas Forum:

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Flow-Ideas/idb-p/FlowIdeas

Best regards,

Alice

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GabrielStJohn on at

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Hello, @Anonymous!

If you have already posted your idea to the Flow Community Ideas Forum then you need to post the URL to your idea’s thread as a reply to this thread and accept it as the solution so that other users may vote for your Flow Idea and identify the information more easily.

Thank You!

-Gabriel

Flow Community Manager

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Community Power Pla... on at

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Please try my method or at least read carefully before saying it can't be done - I've already gotten posts to be automated, but the attached images did not have a preview because they were in .txt form.

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Hello, @Anonymous!

Would you mind replying to this thread with instructions on how to do it and then click "Accept as Solution" so that other users may easily identify this information!

Thanks again for posting!

-Gabriel

Flow Community Manager

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Community Power Pla... on at

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None of these are acceptable solutions.

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samkc11 4 on at

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Hey! i feel your struggle!
can you share the flow you've created so i can try it out, as i know when i send images an email to yammer groups they do post as images.
but i havent done it as part of a flow trigger.

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samkc11 4 on at

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Hey @anonymous! i feel your struggle!
can you share the flow you've created so i can try it out, as i know when i send images an email to yammer groups they do post as images.
but i havent done it as part of a flow trigger

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Grivollier 39 on at

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Hello! I'm guessing you don't need this anymore.

But for anybody looking for an answer, I managed to do this by sending it via mail like you said. To let yammer know it is a png, you must specify the file extension on the "Attachments Name" field of send via Outlook like so:

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Anas_SigmaSol2 2 on at

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Hey Grivollier
can you share the flow you've created so i can try it out, that will help me a lot.
Thanks

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mustafafarooq 8 on at

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Is it possible to resize the image attachment , or define the dimensions of the attachment before posting ? And also how would you @mention someone in the email to be posted to Yammer(Viva Engage) any clues ?

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