Save email attachments with specific words in name

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Posted on 13 Jan 2020 10:52:23 by Magikmissy

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I'm really new to Power Automate... as in I didn't know it existed before Friday!

I'm trying to create a flow which will save any Risk Assessments we send or receive by email to a folder. I don't care where they're saved (hard drive, SharePoint, OneDrive etc), but all I can currently do is save every single attachment. I don't understand how to just look for something with 'Risk' AND 'Assessment' in the attachment name.

Help!! 😊

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manuelstgomes 6,625 on 13 Jan 2020 at 11:30:41

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HI @Magikmissy

First of all welcome to Power Automate! Glad that you're here automating stuff. 🙂

Please check if this is what you need.

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Magikmissy 109 on 13 Jan 2020 at 11:53:29

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Re: Save email attachments with specific words in name

Thank you @manuelstgomes Is this right?

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v-alzhan-msft on 14 Jan 2020 at 05:58:12

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Re: Save email attachments with specific words in name

Hi @Magikmissy ,

Your flow is correct and you could achieve your requirement with the flow.

Best regards,

Alice

Community Support Team _ Alice Zhang
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Magikmissy 109 on 14 Jan 2020 at 08:55:27

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Hi @v-alzhan-msft and @manuelstgomes ,

Thanks for your helkp but it's just not working. It shows that the runs were successful, but no attachments are saving onto my OneDrive.

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manuelstgomes 6,625 on 14 Jan 2020 at 09:34:00

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Hi @Magikmissy

Can you please click one of the runs and check the "For Each". We need to check how many attachments are there (runs were made) to ensure that we get the attachments correctly.

LIke @v-alzhan-msft mentioned your flow is correct, so we need to understand where is the detail that is missing.

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Magikmissy 109 on 14 Jan 2020 at 09:40:50

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Re: Save email attachments with specific words in name

Thanks @manuelstgomes. I couldn't find anything that said "For Each" but I found this... does that help...? (Sorry to be a pain!)

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manuelstgomes 6,625 on 14 Jan 2020 at 09:45:13

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Hi @Magikmissy

It does help thanks.

This means that, even if you have attachments, none is named like you want them to. You can check that in the "Body" JSON file in your screenshot and scroll down to check the attachment names. I'm sure that the names won't be 'Risk' AND 'Assessment' so they fail the IF and don't get saved.

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Magikmissy 109 on 14 Jan 2020 at 09:51:23

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Re: Save email attachments with specific words in name

Sorry - I'm probably being really thick here...! Is this the bit you mean? I just want it to save things where what it's called contains both 'Risk' and 'Assessment'.

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manuelstgomes 6,625 on 14 Jan 2020 at 10:06:10

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Re: Save email attachments with specific words in name

Hi @Magikmissy

No worries. I probably didn't explain it correctly.

Check the run history and, in the "Body" before the IF statement finds in the huge text there the file attachment name. You'll see that the names of the files that you find there won't be called as you want them.

If you want, copy the full text and paste it here or send me as a DM if you don't want to make stuff public and I'll try to help you find the information.

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manuelstgomes 6,625 on 14 Jan 2020 at 10:35:24

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HI @Magikmissy

Thanks for sending me the information. You do have a file called "Risk Assessment.docx," so the file should be saved.

But I just noticed something in your original post. You're using a SharePoint path in the "Create File" action. If you want to save it into OneDrive, you should have a path like "/Documents/path1/path2" and not a SharePoint URL.

If you want to save it to SharePoint, you need to use the SharePoint action instead.

Can you please try to pick the folder and rerun the Flow so that we're sure that it's saving in OneDrive?

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